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No. XVIII.

^Journal of Ffeftatfon

IN A PORTION OF THE

DIOCESE OF QUEBEC,

BY THE

LOUD BISHOP OF MONTREAL,

IN 1846.

LONDON:

PRINTRD FOR

THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL;

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ERRATA.

Page 13, end of second paragraph,/or required for the school,

read acquired for the school.
Page 14, last line but one, /or Oxford, r«flii Orford.
Page 15, third line, for to worship, read townships.
Page 23, middle, for La Fortue, read La Tortue.
Page 24, above the middle, for at the Rev. Mr. Dawes*, read

and the Rev. Mr. Dawes.
Page 25, second paragraph, /or Mr. Mezart, readMr. Hazard.
Page 27, fourth line, foi' site of that place, read site at that

place.
Page 30, third paragraph, dele and before of gradual ascent.
Page 32, below the break, after Vaudreuil dele land; and
farther on, instead of for one year. There were four
clergymen present, read for one year, there were four
clergymen present.
Page 33, end of first paragraph, for clergymen, read clergy-
man.
Page 35, sixth line from bottom, /or Mr. Johnston, read Mr.

Johnston's.
Page 38, below the middle, for Mr. Fallum, read Mr. Fal-

loon.
Page 39, third line, for fruit read first.
Page 41, seventh line, /or upon occasions, read upon occasion.
Page 45, middle, after twice in this Church, insert a comma.
Page 51, second line after the break, for Mr, Davis, read

Mr. Dawes.
Page 52, below the middle, for anxious of extending, read
desirous of extending ; and, lower down, /or Newryville,
read Henry ville, and for Mr. Ford, read Mr. Forest.
Page 53, middle, for contracted political institutions, read

contrasted political institutions.
Page 55, eighth line from bottom, /or the winding and finely

wooded hills, read winding and finely wooded hills.
Page 60, fifth line from bottom, /or and there some communi-
cants, read and there were some communicants.
Page 61, seventh line from the bottom, for township, read

townships,
t'age 67, last line, /or Belseil, read Belceil.
Page 69, sixth line from bottom, /or were exceedingly anx-
ious, read are exceedingly anxious.
Page 74, third line, /or Stokeley, 7-cad Stukeley.
Page 75, first line, /or I went to Cattra, read I went to bathe.
Page 80, eighth line from bottom, /or services, read service.
Page 92, seventh line from bottom, /or Rawdown, rcarf Raw-
don.

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PREFATORY LETTER

ADDRESSED BY

THE BISHOP OF MONTREAL

THE REV. B. HAWKINS.

Quebec, 10th December, 1846.
Rev. Sir,

I now forward the concluding portion of my
Journal of last summer; and should any idea of pub-
lishing it be entertained, I am desirous that whai I
am here writing to you should be prefixed to such
publication.

In the first place I am anxious to guard against
an effect which may accidentally follow, in some
instances, from the more pointed or more detailed

mSIIOr OF »I0NTK1£AL H

mention of what is doing in this or that mission,
where the new establishment of the Church may
create a new interest, or wiiere favourable circum-
stances may have conspired with the zeal of the
clergyman, or possibly where a familiar personal
intimacy may have prompted some expression of
feeling, — suggesting the idea of a comparison which
would be unfair between these cases and those of
other clergymen, not less laborious and faithful,
whose labours may not have been so marked by
incident, or, perhaps, may have been particularly
stated to the Society informer journals of my own.
I do not well know how this effect can be avoided,
except by such a general remark as I have here
made ; but if my journal should fall into the hands
of any of my brethren of the diocese, I would beg
them to observe that it might have been prevented
if my clergy would more punctually comply with the
desire of the Society, that they should furnish infor-
mation themselves, of the state of their missions, the
nature and extent of their duties, and the progress
of religion in their neighbourhoods. The Bishop
might then be saved from the sole responsibility of
a task, which, so performed, may not be wholly free
from an invidious character. With this feeling, I
have been under considerable constraint in the present

journt
the cl(

tion g
ber of
distani
lars of

The
be ma(
forme(
here d(
the ci]
the dii
paid, I
to tho!
St. La^
500 m:

The
in the^
presem
ber of

I'KKFATOUY J^iyiTEK.

nission,
;h may
iircum-
of the
►ersonal
sion of
I which
hose of
■aithful,
•ked by
icularly
ly own.
Lvoided,
re here
3 hands
uld beg
jvented
rith the
1 infor-
ms, the
rogress
Bishop
)iliiy of
Uy free
jling, I
present

journal, in speaking of the labours and exertions of
the clergy at all.

In this journal, I have not repeated the informa-
tion given before to the Society, respecting the num-
ber of stations at which the missionaries officiate, the
distance of these from each other, or other particu-
lars of a similar nature.

The whole triennial visitation of the diocese will
be made up of the winter journeys of 500 miles, per-
formed in the beginning of the year ; the journey
here described, of something more than 1,600 miles;
the circuit yet to be made among the missions of
the district of Quebec, and, lastly, the visit to be
paid, by the Divine permission, early next summer,
to those of the district of Gaspe, in the Gulph of
St. Lawrence, of which the most dii^tant is nearly
500 miles below Quebec.

The number of confirmations thus fiir held was,

in the winter journeys, nine, and in that to which the

present Journal relates, forty-five. The whole num-

|ber of persons confirmed at these fifty-four places

■ was 1,570 : the largest number at any one confirma-

Ition, 325 (in Montreal)— the smallest was in the

HlSllor Ot iMUNTREAl/8

instuncc of th(.' coniirmation of one individual at
Danville. About twenty confirmations reniain to
be held.

The number of churches consecrated was nine:
of burying-grounds, four — all upon the summer
journey.

There are in the diocese 102 churches, including
some two or three chapels in obscure places, which
might be considered hardly to deserve the name.
Of these twenty-seven are of stone, eleven of brick,
and sixty-four of wood. Twelve of the number are
buildings now in progress —some of them proceeding
very slowly ; thirteen are buildings used for public
worship in an unfinished state, in which some of
them have been standing for several years ; and a
good many others are imperfectly finished, and de-
ficient in appendages which ought to be found in
the churches of the English Establishment. This
statement comprehends the two chapels burnt down
in the desolating fires at Quebec of 1845, only one of
which has, as yet, been rebuilt.

The number of churches which have received
assistance from the S. P. G. since I assumed the

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the nt
for P]
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receiv(
Societ
Toron

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charge of the diocese, j ust ten years ago, is forty-three ;
the number assisted in the same way by the Society
for Promoting Christian Knowledge, twenty-nine ;
several of those have been assisted more than once.
I do not include the churches in Upper Canada which
received assistance, through my hands, from these
Societies, before the erection of the diocese of
Toronto.

The number of stations at which service is regu-
larly performed, whether in churches or chapels, or
in school-houses and other secular buildings, 220.
This does not include the places visited by tlie
travelling missionaries of the Church Society, when
this Society has such labourers at its command.

There are twenty-three places in the diocese which
have parsonage-houses— all of which, except three,
are missions of the S. P. G. ; and there are seven, to
which more or less of glebe is attached, being an
endowment made by that body. Six of these houses
are of stone, two of brick, and fifteen of wood.
There is also a little wooden mission-house at the
quarantine station at Grosse Isle.

There are twelve instances in which assistance has

lilSHOP OF MONTREALS

been rendered by the S. P. G. in one shape or other,
to parsonages : there is one log parsonage-house which
has been abandoned; the title to the site, however,
remains in the Church.

The schools in the country missions are pro-
vided for by the provincial statute which car-
ries the title of the Elementary Act, and which,
wherever a minority are dissatisfied, on account
of the mixture of creeds, with the principal school
of the locality, gives them the privilege of with-
drawing, upon condition of their having a speci-
fied number of scholars of a proper age to send, and
claiming support for a school of their own. The
act, however, is found to be complicated and diffi-
cult in its practical working, and many of the settle-
ments are in a badly provided condition as regards
the means of education. The Reports of the British
and North American School Society, published at
home, will show what has been done by that body in
Lower Canada towards the alleviation of the wants
of the people in this behalf. I have seen schools
conducted under their auspices which are very

efficient.

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PREFATORY LETTER.

or other,
se which
iiowever,

are pro-
ich car-
i which,
account
\\ school
of with-
a speci-
send, and
rn. The
and diffi-
le settle-
regards
e British
lished at
t body in
he wants
1 schools
ire very

The whole number of clergy in the diocese is
seventy -eight ; the number holding charge in the
diocese is seventy-three ; the number of mission-
. aries engaged in the service of the S. P. G. fifty-
two ; the number of retired missionaries of that
Society, three.

The number of miles to be travelled by the
Bishop, in four separate main journeys, with some
minor movements for detached missions, in order to
visit all the stations of the Church, approaches to
4,000 ; and some addition is made from time to
time, as the circuits periodically return, on account
of the formation of new missions.

The outline of the summer route, of which the
particulars are given in the Journal, is as follows: —

From Quebec up the St. Lawrence to Port St.
Francis — thence into the eastern townships to Len-
noxville on the River St. Francis — thence across the
country to Montreal ; from Montreal to La Prairie
on the opposite side, and by a circuitous route to
the Chateauguay River-— thence across to La Chine
in the Island of Montreal, and so up the Ottawa to
Clarendon, taking in the Gore up the North River

PREFATORY LETTER.

by St. Andrew's; after descending the Ottawa,
again across from Montreal to La Prairie, and so to
St. John's and the missions in the circumjacent
country, and so by the Isle aux Noix to Missisqui
Bay — thence into another part of the eastern town-
ships, through which a circuitous course, with one
deviation into the seigneurial tracts again, to visit
Abbotsford and St. Hyacinth, brought me once
more to Lennoxville for the confirmation, the former
visit having been on college business ; thence to
other parts of the same townships, and down the
St, Francis River to Nicolet — from the neighbour-
hood of which I ascended the St. Lawrence to Sorel,
and there crossed over to the mission of Rawdon
and its dependencies, in the rear of the French
parishes on the north shore, and finally sweeping
round through different parts of the mission of
Mascouche, I came to Montreal, and so returned to
Quebec on the 1st of September, having left it on
the 23d of June.

I am, dear Sir,

Your very faithful servant,

G. montrp:al.

Jun
steame
six mil
Colleg.
which
the sci
arrang
both u
spared
four se
was tl
of the
scale ;
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and so to
cumjacent

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with one
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me once
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thence to
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turned to

left it on

int,
lEAL.

JOURNAL

SUMIVIER VISITATION

IN A PORTION OP THE

DIOCESE OF QUEBEC — 1846.

June 23. — I left Quebec in the afternoon, by
steamer, for Port St. Francis, distant about eighty-
six miles, having business before me first at Bishop's
College, in Lennoxville, and then at Montreal; after
which I was to proceed on an extended tour among
the scattered missions of the Society, having so
arranged my plans for the visitation of the diocese,
both upon the present and future occasions (if I am
spared to execute my purposes), as to break it into
four separate journeys, of which this now before me
was the most comprehensive. The establishments
of the Church in this diocese are upon a very humble
scale ; but I feel more and more, what I have often
expressed to the Society, the vast importance of
the foundation now to be laid, and the need of faith,

BISHOP OF MONTREAL S

in order to look, with such powers as my own and
such resources as lie at my command, for any effects
at all commensurate with the demand. I am also
led to reflect more and more every day upon the
incalculable blessings which, by the Providence of
God, have been procured to the Protestant inhabi-
tants of all these colonies, by means of the Society's
operations ; and if there be persons in England who
hold back their hands from the support of the
Society, under the idea that it is not an effectual
instrument in promoting the cause of the gospel,
I fervently pray God that their minds may be dis-
abused. Those have much to answer for who, from
defect of information, (since that is the most chari-
table construction to put upon their proceeding,)
propagate or adopt such a notion : it is very easy
for "gentlemen of England, who live at home at
ease,** to pass a sweeping judgment upon poor sol-
diers of Jesus Christ, who are enduring hardships
in the obscurity of Canadian w^oods ; these, however,
stand or fall to their own Master ; but if the means
of the Society (which God avert !) should be really
impaired by such representations, many sheep will
be left without a shepherd, many souls will have to
charge upon unkind brethren in the land of their
fathers, their spiritual destitution and advancing
debasement. We reached the port about midnight.

v=. f.

June
I set 01
Araeric
for Sh
I read
I was r
mission
refresh!
man of
in com
Lennox
. further.
* June
days wi
meetino
body wj
rarily a
held in
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which
with th

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tages ui
had to 8
[I was SI
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VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

r own and
iny effects
I am also

upon the
r'idence of
at inhabi-
J Society's
gland who
rt of the
i effectual
le gospel,
ay be dis-
vvho, from
lost chari-
oceeding,)

\QYy easy
) home at

I poor sol-
hardships

, however,
he means

be really
shefe'p will

II have to
1 of their
jdvanclng
nidnight.

VISIT TO LENNOXVILLE COLLEGE.

June 24. — After lying down for a few hours,
I set out at four o'clock, a.m. by the public stage, an
American waggon with a top supported by posts,
for Sherbrooke, distant eighty-eight miles, which
il reached between nine and ten at night* Here
I was met by the Principal of the College, and the
missionary of Lennoxville, and after taking some
refreshment at the house of Mr. Wait, the clergy-
man of the place, I proceeded on the same night,
in company with the two former gentlemen, to.
Lennoxville, which is only three or four miles
further.

June 25, and 26. — The whole of these two
days was occupied by the business of the annual
meeting of the College Corporation. The Collegiate
body was still in occupation of the building, tempo-
rarily adapted for the purpose. The meetings were
held in another building, constituting, together with
the ground attached to it, a most excellent property,
which has been required for the school connected
with the College.

June 27. — This day was allotted to the College
examination. Considering the manifold disadvan-
tages under which the majority of the students have
had to struggle, before they entered the institution^
I was surprised and gratified by their performance.
They were examined in Hebrew by the Professor in.
tliat department, the Rev. Mr. Hellmuth, a con-

BISHOP OP MONTREAL S

verted Polish Jew, whom I have mentioned more
than once to the Society ; and he rendered his tes-
timony, supported by that of the principal, to their
great assiduity and good progress within the time
which has elapsed since they engaged in this study.
I made an address to them all with reference to the
work which is before them, touching upon the diffi-
culties of the times, and urging the necessity, height-
ened by local considerations, of unflinching devoted-
ness and singleness of eye to the glory of their
Master.

Sunday, June 28. — I preached in the churches
of Lennoxville and of Sherbrooke, to good con-
gregations.

JOURNEY TO MONTREAL.

- June 29. — Early this morning I set out with
the Rev. Principal Nicolls, one of my chaplains,
who drove me in his own waggon, my servant fol-
lowing in another with the baggage, to proceed
across the country to Montreal. We had a stage of
twenty-two miles to make before breakfast, almost
the whole of which, after leaving Sherbrooke to the
right, and entering upon uninhabited woods, was,
even at this season, desperately bad. Matters after-
wards improved in this point ; but the weather was
intensely and oppressively hot. I refreshed myself
by a swim in Oxford lake, near to which we stopped
to dine. We put up for the night with the Rev.

with
I went '
yond,
for me

* the ch

I pletion
comin^
circuit
from tl
The s
school-
good f
^ thankf

I visiting
ford, t
their c
things
vain, r

^ pleasai

f mgiy ^

I built
? said tc

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

)ned more
td his tes-
il, to their

the time
his study,
ice to the

the diffi-
ty, height-
l devoted-
r of their

churches
ood con-

out with
chaplains,
rvant fol-
proceed
a stage of
St, almost
)ke to the
)ods, was,
ers after-
ither was
d myself
e stopped
the Rev.

Mr. Slack, at Granby, whose mission I shall have to
speak of farther on, in describing my visit to it for
the confirmation, after my return to these to wor-
ship.
* June 30. — Mr. and Mrs. Slack came on with
us, he having it in view, as well as ourselves, to
attend the anniversary meeting of the Church
Society at Montreal. We breakfasted ten miles off,
with the Rev. Mr. Johnson, at Abbotsford, and all
went on together to Rougemont, eleven miles be-
yond, where Mr. Johnson had made an appointnaent
for me to preach. This place lay in our road, and
by my affording a service there now, and visiting
the church which is in progress towards its com-
pletion, the necessity was dispensed with of my
coming out of my way to do so, in the subsequent
circuit for the confirmations. The young people
from this place came to Abbotsford to be confirmed.
The service was performed in a little crowded
school-house, and the heat was overpowering. The
good feeling, how^ever, of this congregation, their
thankfulness for the attentions of Mr. Johnson in
visiting them on Sunday afternoons from Abbots-
ford, the exertions which they have made to get up
their church, and the hope afforded, altogether, that
things spiritual have not been sown unto them in
vain, made our little delay in the place to be very
pleasant and full of comfort. The church is exceed-
ingly well situated upon the end of a hill. It is
built of wood, according to a new method, wliich is
said to have the advantage of much compactness,

BISHOP OF Montreal's

and to promise durability — pieces of wood being
laid together like bricks, within a frame.

The sun beat upon us with an excessive power,
as we proceeded to Chambly, where, after a most
inconvenient delay at the ferry, we made another
halt. From hence to Longueil, opposite to Mon-
treal, there is a plank road of twelve miles in length.
We were too late for the ferry- steamers to the city ;
but Mr. Nicolls and myself hired an open boat, and
were pulled across. We reached before midnight
the great hotel, kept by an Italian of the name of
Donegana, where, if I recollect rightly, 300 beds
are made up. I was once the guest of that excellent
man, Lord Seaton, in the same house, when it was
hired for the residence of the Governor, but great
additions have since been made to it.

I have not noted the distance from Lennoxville
to Montreal ; but I think our journey something
exceeded forty miles each day.

STAY AT MONTREAL.

July 1. — Anniversary of the Church Society.
The meetings are held alternately at Quebec and
Montreal; and it was this year the turn of the
latter city. Service was held in the parish church,
and a sermon for the occasion, which gave much
satisfaction, was preached in pursuance of a request
from myself, by the Rev. Mr. Townsend, one of the

senior

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>od being

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to Mon-

in length,

the city ;

boat, and

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Society,
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church,
re much
. request
e of the

seniors among the Canadian Missionaries of the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. The
meeting was held in the National school-house, and
went off well. Neither the service, however, nor
the meeting were attended, by any means, so numer-
ously as might have been expected and desired.
This is in part to be accounted for by the fact that,
as far as the merchants are concerned (and the cities
of Canada are seats of commerce), the portion of
the year during which the navigation of the St.
Lawrence is open is one continued scene of hurried
occupation. Still it must be confessed, that we have
not yet stirred up among our people here the full
spirit on behalf of their Church, which, by the
blessing of God, we must hope to see prevalent
among them ; but it is growing, and it may be seen
by the reports of the Church Society, that we are
working our way on with some encouragement.

Jul^ 2. — This day was filled up by interviews on
business with different clergymen and others, who
took advantage for their several purposes, of my
little sojourn in Montreal.

Julf/ 3, and 4. — A periodical meeting of the
Central Board of the Church Society was held, by
rule, on the former of these two days, and the busi-
ness not having been all got through, an adjourn-*
ment took place to the latter. ,. ..

Sunday, July 5 —At nine o*clock in the morning
of this day, I admitted to Deacon's Orders, in the
parish church of Montreal, my eldest son, A. W^
Mountain, B. A., of University College, Oxford.

BISHOP OF MONTREAL S

My family had come up from Quebec to witness the
ceremony. I shall not obtrude upon the Society any
reflections peculiar to this case as connected with
paternal and domestic feeling ; but I bless God that
I believe myself to have added on this occasion, to
the number of labourers in the diocese, one who
will not prove himself faithless. He was sent down
immediately to take charge of the Quarantine Station
below Quebec, under the auspices of the Church
Society of the diocese.

After the ordination, 1 had three engagements to
preach on this day ; a charity sermon at the morn-
ing service of Trinity chapel, where I also adminis-
tered the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper ; the
afternoon sermon in the parish church, — and the
evening sermon in St. Ann's chapel, situated in the
suburb called Griffin-town.

" ' A MILITARY CONGREGATION.

A fourth sermon w^as afterwards interposed be-
tween the morning and afternoon services here
mentioned. The chaplain to the Garrison, backed
by Major Davis, who commands the 53d Light
Infantry Regiment, made a special request to me
that I would preach to the troops, for whom a
service is held in the parish church at two o'clock.
A certain number of men of the regiment
whom I had confirmed in the winter, had since

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

itness the
•ciety any
cted with
God that
casion, to
one who
ent down
e Station
5 Church

sments to
le morn-
admin is-
per ; the
and the
d in the

)sed be-
is here
, backed
i Light
to me
whom a
o'clock.
Bgiment
d since

become communicants, and had conducted them-
selves in an exemplary manner. This was a par-
ticular reason for the request, with which I, of
course, complied. Much pains have been taken
with these men, not only by the chaplain, (the Rev.
D. Robertson) but also by Major Davis, and they
have been carefully trained to chant tlie portions of
the service proper to be so performed. I have seen
the same thing in other corps, but signally in the
second battalion of the 1st, or Royal Regiment, un-
der the zealous and assiduous direction of Lieut.
Whitmore of that regiment. I thus attended four
services, and preached four times, after performing
the ordination service in the morning, leaving oiF
very nearly at the distance of twelve hours, from the
time at which I began, and with hardly more inter-
ruption through the whole day than was necessary
for passing from church to church ; and it certainly
was one of the hottest days that I remember ever to
have felt in my life ; but I had great cause to be
thankful at the close of it, for an additional proof of
the physical fitness for the labours devolving upon
me, with which it has pleased God to bless one of
his servants, very sincerely and keenly conscious of
much less aptitude for them in other and higher
points of view. I felt no fatigue in the least degree
hurtful or distressing.

BISHOP OP MONTREAL 8 . ,-

M^GILL COLLEGE.

•hily 6. — I attended a meeting of the governors
of M'Gill College at Montreal, held in the old
French Government-house, now used for the offices
of certain departments of the local administration.
His Excellency Earl Cathcart presided, and we sat
for five hours. There has been what is often called
a fatality attending this institution — the bequest of
the founder having been for about twenty years in
litigation, and difficulties without end having since
arisen to impede its prosperity. It is not yet settled
how far the claim of the Church of England to give
it the character of an episcopal institution can be
asserted, or I should rather say, perhaps, how far it
can be maintained. Its affiiirs, however, apart from
this question, appear to be, at last, in better train ;
but it is still weighed down by great embarrassments.
It has, thus far, been chiefly efficient as a school of
medicine. The buildings are partially completed,
and are upon a handsome scale, and in a noble situa-
tion, overlooking the city, and screened in the rear
by the abrupt and wooded rise of the mountain
which gives name to it, — i\\% royal mountain. The
delays, discouragements and doubts which have ob-
structed the advancement and clouded the prospects
of this college, have been especially of a nature to
forbid the idea of making it available as a nursery for
the Church in the diocese ; and it is to the College
at Lennoxville, which by the charter is under the

„^

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

[overnors

the old

be offices

istrntion.

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en called

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ature to

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College

der the

cornpl«te control of the Bishop, that we must look
for tliis object. Perhaps, also, the situation of Lennox-
ville is better suited to a course of preparation of the
ministry, than the city of Montreal — a gay, wealthy,
bustling, busy place, with a large garrison within its
limits. Lennoxville, at present, is almost too obscure
and backward a retreat ; but t)ie scene, and probably
at no distant day, will be much changed. The
rail-road which is to connect Montreal with Portland
in the State of Maine, and so with the Atlantic, and
which is now [October] proceeding, will pass di-
rectly through it, and is expected to give a great
impulse to the whole of the eastern townships.

If M^Gill College should hereafter be so far under
the direction of the Church of England, as to make
it a propi-r seminary for a race of clergy in the
country, it will then serve for, what it must be hoped
will before any great length of time be, the diocese
of Montreal : and Bishop's College will still be the
reliance for that of Quebec.

Ju/i/ 7. —The governors met again ; his Excel-
lency Earl Cathcart again presiding, and we sat this

day seven hours. The few remaining governors,

some of the offices of those who were originially ex-
officio governors, having, from the political changes
of the country, ceased to exist, are widely dispersed ;
the Chief Justice of Upper Canada, resident at
Toronto, being one, and I myself resident at Quebec
another ; and with all the occupations which fill the
hands of both, it is but rarely that we can both be
together in Montreal. When, therefore, a full meet-

BISHOP OF MONTREAL S

ing can be got, it is necessary to push business
through. Neither of us could prolong our stay in
Montreal. His Excellency set us the example of
great patience and close attention to all the details
which came before us. I have, rayself, had but little
share in the duties of the governors, — having been
disqualified from taking my seat at the Board, by
holding the title of Bishop of Montreal, till, for
another object, a provincial statute was passed, giv-
ing me generally, under this title, to all effects and
purposes, the powers of the Bishop of Quebec. I
declined also for some time afterwards, to act, for
reasons with which I will not here trouble the
Society,

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LA TRAIRIE — HEMMINGFORD.

Julf/ 8. — I crossed over in the ferry-steamer to
La Prairie, nine miles from Montreal, and at half-
past ten, A. M. held service for the confirmation, in
the singularly neat little church. Not more than
fifty or sixty persons in all, were present, but I have
omitted to note how many were confirmed. The
place is one of the old Roman Catholic parishes, and
there is an establishment of Jesuits in the villa^re.
The Seigneurie formerly belonged to that order,
forming part of their extensive estates in the country.
The Church of England schoolmaster here has been
greatly persecuted and very ill used, on account of
his having, simply, by the merits of his school, drawn

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1 8 46.

\i business
ur stay in
xample of
the details
d but little
iving been
Board, by
Z, till, for
assed, giv-
jfFects and
2uebec. I
to act, for
'ouble the

iteamer to

id at half-

ation, in

Inore than

tut I have

led. The

Wishes, and

[le village.

lat order,

le country.

has been

iccount of

lol, drawn

to it some of the children of Roman Catholic pa-
rents, — but he has, by God'3 help, maintained his
ground. There is another church in this mission,
situated some miles off at Longueil, and built prin-
cipally at the charge of the proprietor of the Barony,
but owing to the misconduct of the contractor, and
the necessity of going to law with him, it has not
yet been opened for divine service. Mr. Broome,
however, the missionary, officiates regularly to a
congregation who assemble in the school-house at
La Fortue, besides serving the Church at La Prairie,
and he appears to look forward with pain to the dis-
continuance of his attendance there, which must
follow when he shall have the two churches upon
his hands.

I had now commenced the series of confirma-
tions to be performed upon this circuit, for wh a
the clergy whom I was to visit had everywhere
been making preparation among their flocks. In the
evening of this day, Mr. Broome went on with me
to Ilemmingford, distant twenty-three miles, where
the Rev. Mr. Hazard resides. It was eleven o'clock
at night when we reached the house. Nothing
can be more confined or more humble than the
accommodation enjoyed by himself and his lady,
an English couple, occupying a diminutive sittino--
room, and still more diminutive bed-room in the
house of a settler, through whose kitchen they must
pass to have access to their own apartments. They
seem, however, content, and regard their privations
as things attaching characteristically to missionary

BISHOP OF MONTREAL S

life. I have had many quarrels with the mission-
aries and their ladies in mj opposition to the system
of surrendering their own bed-room to tiieir Bishop,
but all the arrangements having been made before-
hand; they generally got the better of me. .

SHERRINGTON — ST. REMI.

July 9. — We came back about five miles, over
the same road, to Sherrington church, a good stone
building, in which the people from all the mission,
who could attend, were to meet me, and which was
this day consecrated under the name of St. James's
church, Mr Broome being still with me at the liev.
Mr. Dawes', — (well remembered in all tliis tract of
country as the first clergyman of the Cliurch who
had charges in it, and who itinerated incessantly
where three clergymen are now labouring with full
hands,) — having come over from St. John to assist
us. Eighteen persons were cor. '^»*med, — a consecra-
tion of living temples to the Lord, — a little band,
but a band I would trust, of believers, built up as a
spiritual house to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable
to God by Jesus Christ. In country places, and
especially where the services are so protracted as
they were upon the present occasion, I frequently
combine in one the address to the persons confirmed
with a plain and familiar sermon, for the congrega-
tion ; and this may vary appro[)riately be done when
the two particular ceremonies here mentioned are

ram

large

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

he mission-
tlie system
eir Bishop,
ade before-

: fi 5 .

miles, over
good stone
he mission,
. which was
St. James's
at the liev.
his tract of
^liurch who
incessantly
ig with full
n to assist
a consecra-
little band,
uilt up as a
acceptable
laces, and
tracted as
frequenily
confirmed
congrega-
Idone when
tioned are

performed in immediate succession. After I had
preached in this way, we all went out to conse-
crate the burying-ground.

This is a remarkably flat and uninteresting part
of the country, and our drive in the afternoon to
St. R^mi, was not very comfortable, — a broiling sun
over our heads, and a smothering dust raised by our
vehicle, which was a rude and huge lumber waggon
without any kind of springs. Mr. Mezart came
with me. The distance is eighteen miles, but we
made it twenty-four, by missing our road, and hav-
ing to retrace our way.

July 10. — Here, in another Roman Catholic
parish, I ministered again to the little flock of
Our own church people, of whom I confirmed seven in
their beautifully neat little church, and I consecrated
the building, which is of stone and well finished, but
it is only 32 feet long, by 26 in width, in the exte-
I'ior walls. I preached everywhere, and it is not
necessary to go on making special mention of my
performances in this way. Between eighty and
ninety persons were present. After service I left
St. R^mi with Mr. Plees, the missionary, and pro-
,ceeded to Russell-tow^n Flats, fourteen miles, pass-
ing through Norton Creek, when we dined at the
miller's, a respectable Englishman, with whom Mr.
Plees at present makes his home. The continued
and oppressive heat of the atmosphere now vented
itself in a very violent thunder storm, with driving
rain and hail. Some of the hail-stones were so
large that they were measured out of curiosity, but

BISHOP OF MONTREAL S

I cannot state the measurement. After the hail-
storm, during which we were under shelter, we went
on, encountering some more thunder showers upon
our way to Russell-town Flats, where we slept.

Jul^ 11. — At Russell-town Flats, there is a
wooden building, well situated upon a small emi-
nence overlooking the village, fitted up for public
worship ; but, as is not uncommon in the neighbour-
ing states of America, unappropriated to the use
of any particular body of Christians. At present
we have the benefit of it, and there are not wanting
examples in the diocese of buildings put up in this
kind of way, which have passed ultimately into our
hands. In this meeting-house, for such it must be
called, I had a congregation of one hundred and fifty
persons and upwards, and twenty-three were con-
firmed. I then went on seven miles, to Russell-town
village, and inspected the brick church there in pro-
gress, under the direction of Mr. Flees, — after which
I went immediatelyon withMr. Morris, the missionary
of Huntingdon, who had come over toine, taking leave
of Mr. Flees and his extensive mission, the labours
of which are detailed in a former journal, and there-
fore, as well as other labours for the same reason,
not specified here. Thirty persons were confirmed in
his mission.

a»'

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the hail-
*, we went
rera upon
slept,
lere is a
mall emi-
for public
leioflibour-
o the use
Vt present
)t wanting
up in this
y into our
it must be
id and fifty

were con-
issell-town
ere in pro-
ifter which
missionary
aking leave
he labours

and there-
me reason,
)nfirmed in

HUNTINGDON — DISPUTES ABOUT CHURCH SITES.

I was met at a spot known by the name of Hind-
man's Corner, and lying within the charge of Mr.
Morris, by a deputation of settlers with a long repre-
sentation in favour of a site of that place, for a pro-
jected church, in preference to a site chosen by
another party at the burying-ground within the
settlement which is called the Gore. This opposi-
tion of sentiment respecting the sites of churches,
as men are swayed, in the very work of religion,
and in providing the very place where they are to
approach their God, by their own interest or their
own convenience, is a feature of frequent occurrence
in newly settled portions of the country, and one with
which it is very difficult, as well as painful, to deal.
In some cases, indeed, it may be cut short by de-
ciding the matter peremptorily by authority, ant}
leaving the dissatisfied party, (it having been ap-
parent that they are wrong,) to come to a better mind,
or to manifest their discontent in their own way.
But it is often a matter of much perplexity to
balance the conflicting claims : and there must always
be an anxiety, which is very apt to be disappointed,
to reconcile the minds of men together, and to per-
suade the defeated party, since one must be defeated,
to acquiesce with Christian disinterestedness and
renunciation of self, or voluntarily to withdraw their
own proposal. I have too often urged in vain the
J example of Abraham in his transaction with Lot,

BISHOP OF MONTREAL S

and the charge of our Lord, if any man will compel
us to go a mile to go with him twain, which bears a
very direct application to the question of having to
go a mile or two more or a mile or two less to
church. Yet not always in vain, or not wholly so ;
and sometimes with good effect, which has not been,
at the moment, apparent. In the present instance,
however, the dispute has now operated for some
years, to the absolute suspension of the undertaking.
Yet there is a well-affected congregation at the Gore,
comprehending almost the whole population of the
settlement. I was obliged to say that since they
could not agree otherwise, each party must en-
deavour to build a church ; but this w^ith divided
resources, they must be long in accomplishing. Per-
haps a change may yet come over their minds.

I slept at the very small but very neat parsonage
of Huntingdon, distant twenty-four miles from our
point of starting in the morning.

Sundaf/, July 12. — At the morning service in
Huntingdon church, there were nineteen persons
confirmed. The church was crowded to excess :
many persons were standing in the aisle : others
en the outside at the open windows. In the after-
noon I proceeded eleven miles, to the Gore, where 1
confirmed thirteen persons, and preached again to a
densely jammed auditory in the log school-house,
with quite a crowd on the outside who could not
gain admission. The difference is apt to be ex-
tremely marked in Canada, between Sunday and
week-day services, especially during the season

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ill compel
3h bears a
having to
;o less to
vholly so j

not been,
: instance,

for some
dertaking.
: the Gore,
;ion of the
since they

must en-
th divided
bing. Per-
inds.

parsonage
s from our

service in
m persons

excess :
e : others

1 the after-
'e, where 1

again to a
lool-house,
could not
to be ex-
nday and
he season

when the successive labours of the field are going
on. That season is precious, and there is a full
and constant demand for all the hands that can be had.

On my way to the Gore, I was joined at Hind-
man's Corner by a long train of waggons full of
people. This, however, was regarded by the other
party as a concerted arrangement for the object of
making a demonstration to support the claim of that
place to the church site.

Instead of returning to Huntingdon, I went by a
very new and rough road opened through the woods,
to the mission of Ormstown, nine miles from the Gore.
The sun-set viewed through the long straight vista of
these tall woods had a striking effect. The number
of persons confirmed in the Huntingdon mission
was thirty-two.

Jul^ 13. — Morning service was held in Orms-
town church for the confirmation, and thirty-seven
persons brought from different parts of the mission,
were recipients of the rite. There had been some
troubles in this mission, and I had accordingly
allotted the whole remainder of the day to receive
whatever representations, and investigate whatever
points might be found to demand notice, or to call
for animadversion, but no grounds for either were
made to appear.

Jult/ 14. — I proceeded by the stage to Chateau-
quay Basin, and then took the steamer across Lake
* St. Louis to La Chine, the whole distance beins:
something more than thirty miles. I found my way
.to my well-known quarters at La Chine Grove,

BISHOP OF MONTREAL S

where I was received by my kind and Christian
hosts, Col. Wilgress and his family, and passed the
night under their roof.

JuIt/ 15. — This morning early, I took the steamer
at La Chine for Carillon upon the Ottawa, and went
at once to the village of St. Andrew's, about ^i'ty
miles from La Chine, where again I fell into the
arms of a familiar hospitality in the house of Col.
M*Donnel. Service was held for the confirmation
at four o'clock, and thirty persons were confirmed.
An organ has been procured for the church in this
place, and chanting has been introduced, a practice
which I hope will ultimately find its way, although
it will not do so in my day, into every church of the
diocese. Between two and three hundred persons
were in church.

In the evening I dined with my hosts, and some
clerical brethren at the house of the Rev. W. Abbott,
the missionary of St. Andrew's, beautifully situated
among fine groves, upon a commanding eminence,
and of gradual ascent, looking down upon the wind-
ings of the pretty North River, upon which the vil-
lage is situated, with a view of the Ottawa itself
beyond.

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THE GORE.

Julf/ 16. — I set out early for the mission of the
Rev. J. Mc*Master, bearing the same name of the
Gore, which belongs to a portion of the Hunting-

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Christian
passed the

he steamer
, and went
ibout fifty
1 into the
se of Col.
nfirmation
confirmed.
rch in this
a practice
, although
urch of the
ed persons

and some
W, Abbott,
\y situated

eminence,
I the wind-
ich the vil-
:tawa itself

sion of the
ame of the
i Hunting-

don mission already noticed ; in fact, it is a name
applied to places which, when townships are sur-
veyed and laid out, form a remnant or strip of land
resembling what is called a gore in making up
dresses.

I found some little improvement since my last
visit in that rude and secluded spot (which forms
the termination of settlement in this direction) as
well as in the approaches to it, but it took us, with
our best efforts, four good hours and a half to reach
it from St. Andrew's, from which it is considered
to be distant sixteen miles. I was indebted to
Colonel M'Donnel for the arrangements made for
my conveyance. It is a blessing to see a church at
all in such a place, and to be greeted by a resident
pastor in carrying the episcopal ministrations so
completely into the woods ; but the church is an
unsightly edifice in its exterior, and very roughly
fitted up within. About 150 persons were present,
of whom thirteen were confirmed. I considered the
number of candidates for the rite very small in
proportion to the population, and felt myself called
upon to speak strongly to persons presumed to be
present, who so little appreciated the ordinances of
their church, and made so ill a return to the
Society which maintains a Mission among them, as
to remain unconfirmed when they might avail them-
selves of the stated opportunities put in their way.
I pointed out to them that it was only out of a con-
cern for their own good that I spoke ; an 1, as an
evidence of an unaw^akened state, that I noticed

BISHOP OP 3I0NTREAL*S

their neglect; and I am not without a hope that
by the Divine grace and blessing, the question may
have been suggested to some minds in such a way
as to afford the hope of a fuller compliance with
the next periodical call of the Church. Tlie Rev.
Mr. Pyke, of Vaudreuil, was with me, and we got
back to Colonel M*Donners at half-past nine, when,
in spite of my entreaties in the morning that the
family would not wait for us, we sat down regularly
to their dinner.

iiite an
iood si I
rtakii

aptain
M emba
£sttmt
distance

tie nes
Ijhich s
ly-tow]
e Rev

GRENVILLE.

Julf/ 17. — I was driven over to Grenville, fifteen
miles, accompanied by Mr. Abbott, the missionary
of that place, his brother Mr. W. Abbott, missionary
of St. Andrew's, and Mr. Pyke, missionary at
Vaudreuil Land. Mr. Abbott having, as the
Society has been made aware, a curate, Mr.
Sutton, whose situation he makes equal to that
of an ordinary missionary, under an arrangement
made, with my sanction, for one year. There were
four clergymen present, and some part in the service
was assigned to each ; the sermon as well as the
administration of confirmation being reserved to
myself. There were, perhaps, eighty persons present,
of whom thirteen were confirmed. The hay-making
was found everywhere to thin the attendance on
week- days. There is no particular change in the

,1 Sand
#d el.
^tawa,

*|10NV tY

%vas t

il^ce, y\

#ginal

fore II

to be

[esent

[r. Jol

ternoc

fssion

iventu

VISITATION JOURNAL — 184G.

ope til at
3tion may
ih a way
mce with
riio Rev.
d we got
ne, when,

that the
regularly

s^ate and prospects of the Church in the neighbour-
hood since my last report. In tlie afternoon, after
Airtaking of some refreshment at the house of
Captain Kains, a half-pay officer of the Royal Navy,
i embarked in the steamer for By-town, which is
distnnt from Grenville seventy miles, in which whole
fistance we have no church or clergymen.
%July 18. — I passed this day, which was an open one,
tie next being Sunday and allotted to the mission
#hich succeeds on this route to that of Grenville, at
fiy-town in the diocese of Toronto, with my friend
tke Rev. Mr. Strong and his family.

lie, fifteen
nissionary
nissionary
ionary at
\, as the
rate, Mr.
I to that
rangement
here were
;he service
ell as the
jserved to
[is present,
ay-making
idance on
ige in the

AYLMER — CONFIRMATION.

,|; Sunday, July 19. — I crossed over by the superb
^d elegant suspension bridge which spans the
Ottawa, in a long succession of arches, immediately
bf low the magnificent Chaudidre Falls, to Hull, where
l|was to preach in the morning. The state of this
j^tce, which exhibits the failure of great and not
flfiginally ill-conceived speculations,! have described
llffore in a former journal. About fifty persons, which
il to be considered a large congregation here, were
I^esent in the ample church. I then proceeded with
[r. Johnston, the missionary, to Aylmer, when the
ternoon service and the confirmation for the whole
Ission were to be held. We met with some mis-
Iventures on the way, for Mr. Johnston's carriage

BISHOP OF 3I0NTREAL S

having broken down, we procured a huge lumber
waggon, and had not gone far in this, when, in de-
scending a hill with a sharp edge, being built up, on
one side, like a wall with the lime-stones which abound
in the place, the reins broke, and the man who was
driving, pulling with all his might to stop the horses
in their accelerating downward course, and having
only one rein to act with, pulled them necessarilj
side-ways till the wheels were upon the very verge
of the wall. Mr. Johnston, with extraordinary
activity, made a violent forward spring out of tlit
waggon, and seized the horses by the head just in
time, by a moment, to prevent our going over tlit
precipitous side of the hill.

It is slow work to build churches with tlu
resources which are at the command of our people
in Canada. Three years and something more hac
6lapsed since I laid the corner stone of the churcl
at Aylmer, with the customary formalities. It hac
not since made sufficient progress to have beer
opened for Divine service, although our churche
here are very commonly used long before they an
finished. By great, and indeed by forced, exertion-
it was upon this occasion roughly fitted up for tht
purpose. The arrangements, however, were ver)
judiciously made, both for accommodating the con
gregation and for preserving the decency and so
lemnity of the ceremonial ; and there is no othe:
place, which could have been had, sufficient to contaii
anything approaching to the number of persons win
were now brought together. There were fully thret

liundre
jprmed.
Jnent i
ihe evi
fecipiei
law eit
than 01
Ion firm
Into th(
in perp
|lal)le t<
|t cann(
|ion of
(^ calcu
Ipon til
|fe. Ii
:ercis(
period
linking
le best
laving
)wn, 1
lere, i
>r his
icause
consi
IS voi
lornini
iy doir
jrvices
get

VISITATION JOURNAL— 1846.

igc lumber liundred present, of whom twenty-seven were con-
len, in de- firmed. I generally find a very reverential deport-
juilt up, on |nent upon the occasions of confirmation, and often
ich abound |he evidences of deep and unatFected feeling in the
n who was Recipients of the rite, but I do not know that I ever
the horses law eitlier one or the other more strongly marked
and having |Iian on this day. I do conceive great hopes from
necessaril) lonfirmations. What the inspired Apostles brought
very verge into the Church and delivered down to be observed
traordinarj jjn perpetuity, may, like all religious ordinances, be
out of tilt lable to abuse, or degenerate into empty form, but
ead just in |t cannot be unblessed if used in faith and prepara-
ig over tilt jpon of heart ; and this ordinance, upon the face of it,
|b calculated to impress feelings of a holy seriousness
s with tilt Ipon the mind, and to promote holy purposes in the
our people ||fe. It also affords admirable opportunity for the
g more hac |xercise of pastoral care over the young at a critical
eriod of their lives, and I have the comfort of
inking that my clergy very generally improve it to
e best pur{)ose. The Rev. Mr. Strong read prayers,
aving hurried up, through heat and dust, from By-
wn, between his morning and evening services
ere, and having contrived to make some provision
r his intermediate service performed to the troops,
cause he happened to receive the information that
consequence of Mr. Johnston having totally lost
s voice by a cold, I had performed the whole
orning services at Hull, and he wished to prevent
y doing the same thing in the case of the afternoon
rvices at Aylmer. He had just time, to a nicety,
get back for his evening duties. I felt most

the churd
;ies. It hac

have beeE
ur churche
ore they an
3d, exertion;
1 up for thf
, were ver
ng the con
jncy and so

is no othe:
nt to contaii
persons wlii
:e fully thre

BISHOP OF MONTREAL S

sincerely obliged to him, but much regretted that lie
should have been subjected, for no necessity, to so
much trouble and fatigue. Aylmer is distant about
eight miles from By-town. I returned from churoli
to pass the evening and to sleep at the Rev. Mr.
Johnston's.

JOUUXEY TO CLARENDON.

Jahj 20. — I rose at half-past-four and called up
my servant, and he then roused the household of Mr,
Johnston, who, as this was one of the portions of mj
route in which I was unattended by any chaplain,
kindly undertook to accompany me to Clarendon,
We drove down to the landing, and took the steamei
up the lake, to Fitzroy Harbour, at its other extre
mity, about thirty miles from Aylmer. Here 1
learnt tlmt the new iron steamer upon the upper lake
separated from this by the transverse row of fall:
called the Chats and the rapids above them, was foi
the present immoveably aground. It now seeme:
very doubtful whether it would be possible for me t(
keep my appointment the next day at Clarendoii
and if I should be after my time there, the whol(
chain of my following appointments, up to the las
day of August, would necessarily be broken. It hat
happened in this very same instance, upon my visi
three years ago, that by a series of untoward occur
rences upon the route, (described in my Journa
published by the Society,) I had been thrown behinc

VISITATION JOURNAL 184G.

tted that lie
essity, to so
istant about
from cliurdi
e Rev. Mr.

id called up
ehold of Mr,
)rtions of mj
ny chaplain,
) Clarendon,
; the steamei
other extre
er. Here 1
e upper lake

row of fall:
hem, was loi

now seemet
ble for me t(
it Clarendon
re, the wholf
p to the las
ken. It hat
pon my visi
oward occur

my Journa
irown behinc

tiy time, and the people who had assembled to meet
tie, could not be all collected again when I arrived.
I was therefore doubly anxious to push my way on ;
iut from the paucity of hands, the busy and pressing
l|ibours of the hay harvest, and the absorption of all
^e people immediately upon the spot, in occupations
connected with the lumber business, it began to
ippear hopeless to make arrangements which would
|arry me to Clarendon within my time, A bark
(Kinoe was at last found disposable, and a couple of
iiands belonging to the idle steamer, who happened
lb be about the place, were obligingly given to me

J J her Captain. We walked across the two portages
hich lie between the lakes, and proceeded in the
«noe to Sands Point, where we were most hospitably
iceived by a Highland Roman Catholic family, the

leads of which were absent on a visit to Scotland,
' . . .

id after drinking tea with them exchanged our

moe for their sail-boat, in which we were accom-

mied across to Bristol landing by two respectable

jrsons connected with the family. Bristol is within

le mission of Mr. Neve, and here he was to have

let us from Clarendon. But it was dusk as we

iared the shore, and we landed at night-fall. Mr.

[eve, who had arrived at two o'clock, had at last

ven me up in despair and returned home. We

'ocured quarters for the night, at some distance from

le landing, in the log -house of a Mr. Cameron; the

jcoramodation was rough but it was freely and

indly afforded. The whole length of this day's

lurney was forty-five miles.

BISHOP OF MONTREAL S

July 21.— I sent my servant off on horseback soon
after four in the morning, to the house of a Mr,
Heath, three miles up the lake, (who had assisted me
in the means of proceeding, upon my last visit,) to
procure, as he might, similar facilities now, and to
announce my purpose of coming over to breakfast
He returned, as he had gone, upon Mr. Cameron';
horse, leading two others obtained from two different
houses — a saddle, in which article they were botli
deficient, having been borrowed at a third, with the
promise exacted that it should be returned at night,
We got a cart from one of Mr. Cameron's neigh-
bours, for the portmanteau and bags, and in this mj
servant rode. Mr. Johnson and I mounted tlu
other horses. Mr. Heath was absent from home, and
his wife, having been just confined, was in bed: i
good breakfast was, nevertheless, ready for us. i
ride of six miles more through the woods, directlj
back from the lake, brought us to the church. "W(
stopped at a house in the neighbourhood where Mr,
Fallum, the first missionary, had boarded ; and hen
Mr. Neve, who was some few miles off, shortly after-
wards met us. The confirmation was held about twc
o'clock, and fifty- seven persons, forming about orif
fourth of the whole congregation present, were adraittec
to the rite. The mission, which comprises three town
shipSjCanexhibit one hundred and fifty communicant;
at one time ; and thus the word and the ordinances oi
the living God, with all the countless blessings whici
flow from the established provisions of religion in \
community, are ministered by means of the Societj

\Y the

^le wil
Jenerat
|aving
ibey wi
I The
llomplet
H saw it
gardens
atter
i5/. out
[en era 1
Chris
Ipiis aid,
^ decen
lliission.
|f coum

e min
)mpan

fiir as
len se
id my
famero

July
upo
>wn th

VISITATION JOURNAL — ]846.

seback soon
3 of a Mr,
assisted me
St visit,) to
ow, and to

breakfast

, Cameron'}
wo different
' were botli
rd, with tht
3d at night
on's neigh-
i in this m]
lounted tlit
n home, and
3 in bed : a
for us. il
►ds, directlj
lurch, yfi

1 where Mr,
i ; and hert
hortly after-
Id about twc
g about oiif
ereadmittec
; three town
>mmunicant'
)rdinancesol
ssings whicl
religion ins

the Society

r the Propagation of the Gospel, to the scattered
^lembers of the Church who break their way into
k\e wilderness, and plant there the fruit of many
fenerations, to the whole succeeding series of which,
Aaving been thus helped themselves in the outset,
?4iey will hand down the heritage of faith.
4 The church at Clarendon is not yet properly
iompleted; in fact, nothing has been done to it since
J saw it before. I had an interview with the church-
i^ardens, Mr. Neve being also present, in which this
iiatter was discussed, and I have since promised
^5/. out of a sum of 100/., placed at my disposal for
eneral purposes by the Society for the Promotion
Christian Knowledge, upon condition that, with
is aid, the congregation w^ill finish the building in
decent manner. It is the only church in the
ission. Mr. Neve officiates over a wide ranjye
country, and has several week-day appointments
ill school-houses, which it is his practice to fix for
ihe minor festivals of the Church. We were ac-
mpanied back by him and the churchwardens,
5 far as Mr. Heath's, where we drank tea, and we
en separated, bidding each other God speed, — I
d my attendants proceeding to sleep again at Mr.
ameron's, which we reached at 9 o'clock.

RETURN TO BY-TOWN.

July 22. — I was still as dependent as in coming
), upon whatever means I could lay hold of, to go
)wn the upper lake in time for the ulterior prosecu-

BISHOP OF MONTREAL S

tion of my journey, as I had laid it down ; and there
was very little promise of any conveyance by whicli
I could possibly effect the object. I am happy,
however, to record another instance of the kind
alacrity manifested by the inhabitants in facilitatino
the progress of the ministers of religion. While
we were at Mr. Heath's, the evening before, a Mr,
Cooper, who is connected with him, and is engaged
in different concerns in the neighbourhood, under-
took to bring his skiff for me to the landing below
Mr. Cameron's, in the morning, and to take me down
the lake to the head of the upper portage. In the
height of pressing business, he sacrificed his own
time, and that of a man in his employ, to whom he
would not allow me to make any compensation; and
we embarked w^ith him as soon as it was fairly day,
The little skiff had a pair of sculls and a couple d
paddles ; he managed the former principally him-
self, and it w^as owing to the vigour with which he
pulled, that we made the distance of fifteen mile?,
against a head wind, in two hours and forty minutes.
We were thus enabled, after crossing the portages,
to reach Fitzroy Harbour in very good time, and to
dress and breakfast before the departure of the
steamer, which came up from Aylmer ; after
reaching which place, I went on in the stage Ic
By-town ; and, after dining with Mr. Strong,
walked down at night, to go on board the steamer
for Grenville, which was to start at day-break.
We encountered, at the place of embarkation, the
close of a row among some Irish rafts-people and

others,
brutalit
in By-1

the me
ties to ]
to whic
itants
he attai
o feroc
nhapp;
y lead
umber€
imong
to heigh
^e are ]
;nce of
appy c
he laml
incl the
ittle ch'i
July
went (
anot
reuil.
yke, V
ence of
curt at
if tlie sc

The ca:
too narro
hich jro i';t

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

; and there
3 by whicli
am happy,
f the kind
facilitatino
)n. While
fore, a Mr,
is engaged
3od, under-
dins: below
ke me down
re. In the
id his own
to whom he
sation; and

3 fairly day,
a couple oi
ipally hira-
h which he
fteen mile?,
•ty minutes,
le portages,
;ime, and to
ure of the
Tier ; after
he stage to

r. Strong,
:he steamer

day-break
•kation, the
-people and

lothers, in which a man had been treated with great

jbrutality. Scenes of this nature are sadly familiar

in By-town ; and sadly inefficient, apparently, are

he means at the command of the local authori-

ies to repress the wanton and unproyoked outrages

which the most peaceable and respectable inha-

itants have, upon occasions, been subjected from

he attacks of banded ruffians, accustomed, perhaps,

ferocious excitement in the quarrels of their own

inhappy country, and confirmed in lawless habits

y leading the loose and adventurous life of the

umberer. Such exhibitions of fallen human nature,

mong men carrying the name of Christians, serve

heighten our appreciation of all the means which

e are permitted to employ for extending the influ-

nce of the gospel of peace, and advancing the

appy consummation when the wolf shall dwell with

he lamb, and the leopar^d shall lie down with the hid,

md the young lion and the failing together^ and a

Hile child shall lead them,

Jtdy 23. — Leaving the steamer at Grenville,

went on in the stage to Carillon,* there embarking

another steamer, which dropped me at Vau-

reuil. I was met at the landing by the Rev. Mr.

*yke, who drove me a few short miles to the resi-

ence of his father, a retired Judge of the Supreme

)ourt at Montreal. Nothing can exceed the beauty

f the scenery in this part of the country, where the

The canal here constructed t^ good many years ago to avoid the rapids
too narrow to admit any of thelsteam vessels, except the little tenders,
lich fro familiarly by the name of puffers.

BISHOP OF MONTREAt/s

Ottawa expands into the lake of the two mountains.
Our road lay above the bank which overhangs the
water, and among handsome trees, which give it a
character of rural seclusion : we then ascend the
eminence, on the crest of which the Judge's house
is situated, commanding a magnificent view. In the
evening, the young ladies of the family gratified us
by u simple performance of sacred music.

July 24. — I had travelled much in hot weather
and often in dusty roads, and I felt thankful to stroll
down, in the 6arly prime, and surrounded by the
loveliness of nature, to a clean, retired, sandy beach,
the immediate descent to which was down a steep
and richly-wooded bank ; and there to indulge
myself with a swim in the beautiful expanse of water
to which it formed the border.

Service was performed in the forenoon at the
church, which stands just above the bank here
described. About seventy persons were present
and twenty-six v/ere confirmed. Mr. Pyke had
exerted himself to get the church ready for conse-
cration ; and it was a s^ibject of some discussion,
and some doubt, whether I should not proceed t(
consecrate it at once, but it still wants some ap-
pendages to make it in all points complete; and Mr
P. entertaining the hope that he shall be enabled ti
procure them by next summer, I promised, if ?i
permitted, to come up at that time for the specii
purpose of performing the ceremony.

Mr. Mc'Tavish, agent of the Hudson's Ba;
Company, who lives opposite to Vaudieuil, at tlit,

Indian
I this cor
I with a \
I of chur(
J In th
JLa Chii
[carriage
I Hudson

I quarters
[here we

I I had er
I River F

I Simpsor
during \
[who also
I not engi
ihe terri
Wilgresi
friends \
was amo
their se
dispositii
in conta*
circle, it
been fot
fter o{
ontentSj
f death
y havii
ar befoi
avant,

VISITATION JOURNAL 1846.

lountains.
langs the
give it a
scend the
;e*s house
T, In the
•atified us

t weather
il to stroll
ed by the
ady beach,
vn a steep
o indulge
e of water

on at the
jank here
■e present,
Pyke ha^
for conse-
discussion
proceed tf
; some ap-
and M
enabled ti
lised, if Si
the specia

Ison's Ba)
uil, at til

1 •

I Indian village on the lake shore, is a member of
i this congregation, and he has presented the church
I with a handsome altar-cloth, and some other articles
I of church furniture.

In the afternoon I went down in the steamer to
JLa Chine, where, upon landing, I was met by the
I carriage of Sir George Simpson, Governor of the
f Hudson's Bay Territory, and went to take up my
quarters at the Hudson's Bay House. My hosts
here were Mr. and Mrs. Finlayson, whose hospitality
I had enjoyed in the same way at one of the Red
River Forts, in my expedition of 1844 ; and Lady
Simpson, sister of the latter, who lives with them
during her present sojourn in Canada. Sir George,
I who also makes his home here for the present, when
not engaged upon his official tours, was away in
the territory. My old La Chine host. Colonel
Wilgress, the Rev. Mr. Bond, and a small circle of
friends were assembled to pass the evening ; and I
was among persons with whom, from their manners,
their sentiments, their principles, and their kindly
dispositions towards myself, it was refreshing to be
in contact. While I was sitting in this cheerful
circle, ray letters by the English mail, which bad
been forwarded from Quebec, were brought in.
After opening three or four, and glancing at their
oontents, I came upon one which carried the tokens
of death. I soon learnt the reason ; it told me of
iiy having lost a brother, younger than myself, but
ar before me in the Christian race ; the rector of
avant, in Hampshire, a place which will long bear

BISHOP OF MONTREAL S

the traces of the blessing of Heaven upon his faith-
ful and incessant labours, and one, in which, among
other efforts, he was assiduous in promoting a feeling
of interest among his parishioners for the Colonial
Church, and her fostering protectress, the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel. This circumstance
may excuse the passing tribute which I here pay to
his memory. He has mentioned to me at different
times in his letters the operations conducted in his
parish and neighbourhood, in behalf of the Society ;
and he was personally one of the benefactors of
Bishop's College, Lennoxville, having desired me to
send home for execution, at his cost, whatever deed
might be necessary for the conveyance of a portion
out of his share of certain lands belonging to the family
townships, asking whether he ic " not to have the
privilege of thus contributing to the Church in
Canada;" and ending with these words, "And I
beg you to take what you please, only stipulating
that you do not make me niggardly." This was
only intended to be between himself and me, and
I should not have felt it permissible to make it
known in other quarters while he was spared to
me.

LA CHINE.

Jtdf/ 2o. — The confirmation at La Chine wai
held in the forenoon. Consideriil)!.- iit)i)rovement
have been made in the interior lilting up of tlif
little church sinee my la^t visit. Yvom flftv to sixtT

persoi
confir
took r
I the sa

.11
-,t

I train
Ithree ]
fthe Et
I Sw
fhas be<
ation
)awes
^ith tl
statedly
) upper
preac
ibout t
I wo hu
it the f
[he adji
jhe Re>
Jonside
)awes
he 60tli
Betw
tternoc
'hompg
fe hoi
Iso bui
icident
''e hav
khed

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

his faith-
3h, among
g a feeling
e Colonial
society for
cum stance
lere pay to
it different
jted in his
e Society ;
efactors of
lired me to
,tever deed
if a portion
the family
:o have the
Church in
s, "And I
stipulating

This was
id me, and
to make it

spared to

Chine wai
);M*ovement
U[) of tlif
fifty to sixt^

\ persons were present, of whom twenty-one were
j confirmed. After their confirmation, Mr. Finlayson
itook me on in the carriage to Montreal, and I crossed
the same afternoon to La Prairie, where I took the
I train for St. John, distant, by this route, thirty-
I three miles from La Chine, and became the guest of
fthe Rector.

I Sunday i July 2Q^ — The church of St. John
fhas been recently struck by lightning, and the reno-
fvation of the shattered steeple was proceeding. Mr.
awes was in the building at the time, together
ith the body of his communicants, who meet him
tatediy before the administration of the Lord's
upper ; and they had an escape next to miraculous.
4 preached twice in this church in the morning, to
%bout three hundred, and in the evening to about
wo hundred persons. Fifty-seven were confirmed
t the former service, of whom eighteen came from
he adjacent village of Christieville, under charge of
he Rev. W. Thompson. There would have been a
lonsiderable addition of military persons, whom Mr.
awes had prepared, but for the sudden removal of
le 60th Rifles from the station.
Between these two services, I went over in the
ternoon to preach at Christieville, and found Mr.
hompson in occupation of the newly-built parson-
e house, erected by the late Major Christie, who
so built and endowed the church. And here an
cident took place which was wholly new in Canada.
e have, from time to time, in a number of de-
ched instances, received Roman Catholics in this

4(>

BISHOP OF MONTREAL S

reconcii
other d
and he
Eunuch
liaving
call him
provide!
nut intc

i ferrinor
I engaged
f occasion
at comf

country, some of whom have been French Canadians,
into the communion of our own Ciiurch, and among
these there have been highly satisfactory cases. But
the practice was never introduced of their making uu
open recantation. In the present instance, however.
Mr. Thompson brought to me a respectable Freneli
Canadian, the head of a family in the neighbour-
hood, who having been led, after much faithful
prayer and careful deliberation, and most diligent |the neig
search, to embrace the tenets of the Church of Eng- 1 diligent)
land, conceived spontaneously a decided and strong -'and the
desire to make a public profession of the trutlij
which had become dear to his heart. I had half an
hour's conversation with him before service, and I
received a most favourable impression of his tho-
rough sincerity, and of his whole character as fi*| brought
servant of God, following the convictions of hi? I — his re
conscience in opposition to worldly influences. No- I being n
thing could be further removed from all flourish ot j pressed
frothy excitement than his deportment and conver fan act (
sation : there was a sedateness and quiet soliditi
stamped upon his countenance and pervading hi; Jhelptoh
manner, which, if I do not wholly mistake, gave the 1 nance of
earnest of a firm adherence to the undisguised trutli- fassailed.
of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the apostolic com'
munion of the Church which he was about formal^
to join. His mind had been originally opened undei
the teaching of the Divine Spirit, by the perusal o
the Bible, and thus conversing with his God througf Ipersons
the medium of His own book, he soon found that tlit lof this
system in which he had been educated could not bt Jthemselv

he could
[the pray'
[form, wh

^ion, we

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

anudians,
id among
ases. But
naking an
however,
le Frencli
eighbour-
ii faithful

reconciled with the sayings of that book ; but no
other digested systera had presented itself to him,
and he was a good deal in the situation of the
Eunuch, — wanting the appointed help of the Church,
having unformed views, and not knowing what to
call himself or what course he ought to take, — when,
providentially, the English Liturgy, in French, was

I nut into his hands by a Jerseyman, who settled in
t diligent I the neighbourhood, and he set to work to compare it
ih of Eng- 1 diligently with the Bible — studying every part of it,
nd strong and the Thirty-nine Articles in particular, and re-
the trutlij Jferring all through to texts of scripture. While
id half an I engaged in these researches, he had interviews upon
ice, and I | occasion with some of our clergy, and having arrived
f his tho- I at complete satisfaction of mind, he was finally
icter as ii*| brought up to the point which I have stated above,
I — his recantation, however, as I have there said,
being neither suggested to him nor in any way
pressed upon him. He told me that he felt it to be
an act of duty to make this good profession before
many witnesses, and that he looked to it also as a
help to hold him to his adopted faith, in his mainte-
nance of which he knew that he should be severely
ised truth: I assailed. His recantation was made in French, (for
stolic com 1*^6 could not speak a syllable of English,) between
it formally i ^^^^ prayers and the sermon : but those parts of the
form, which most directly concerned the congrega-
tion, were read in English. About two hundred
3d throng! Ipersons were present to witness my solemn reception
id that tht ' of this new brother into fellowship of faith with
uld not h i themselves.

ms of hii
nces. No-
flourish ot
id conver

et soliditj
iciing liii
», gave th

3ned undei
perusal o

BISHOP or MONTREAL S

An example of conversion, closely similar to thia
in its circumstances, (with the exception of the re-
cantation,) took place some years ago in the mission
of Abbotsford. The subject of it gave his Frencli
copy of the prayer-book, upon his death-bed, as a
memorial, to the Rev. Mr. Johnson, who keeps it aj
a treasure and a trophy of the victory of divine truth,
In the neighbourhood of that mission there has re-
cently been a considerable movement among some
French Canadians in favour of the Church of Eng-
land, and I have sent up, by desire, a supply oi
French publications of the S. P. C. K. and some few
others,* for their use. Wherever there is a door
thus opened, I conceive that it is our duty to enter
in, and I regard it as a call to us which, according
to our ability, we are bound to answer : but the
successive governors of the Church of England in
Canada have been unadvisedly censured by some
impatient spirits, not perhaps fully masters of their
subject, for not having carried the war right and
left, with colours flying and trumpets sounding, into
the camp of the Roman Catholic population — a pro-
ceeding which, even if God had placed resources at
command by which it could have been attempted,
would, in the judgment of many persons, not want-
ing in zeal for the truth of God, have served rather
to retard than advance the cause. But it is well
known that with the utmost toil and watchfulness,

* They were provided with Bibles before. One of the tracts was a
translation made here of a little work ou the Society's list, " The Foot
Man's Preservative against Popery."

and w

means

propel

the inl

try ha

often 1

ill-pro

indiffe

ments

lowers.

conside

ing of

I that CI

^ decenci

J and, al

I shown

the hal

] faith fa

Imendat

I fail of

|notonl

I Rome,

joperati

iciples,

been Ui

It 13, t

prospei
sheep,
were, n
— since
ist so fi

VISITATION JOUUNAL — 1846.

lar to this

of the re.
the mission
his French
i-bed, as a
keeps it a^
vine truth,
jre has re-
nong some
ch of Eng-

supply oi
i some few

is a door
ty to enter

accordini!
ir : but the
England in
d by some
TS of their
' right and
inding, into
ion — a pro
•esources at
attempted,
, not want-
rved rather
t it is well
itchfulness,

lie tracts was a
list, " The Pool

ml with the most strained efforts to eke out the
means at their disposal, in order to cover our own

^ proper ground, those who have been charged with
the interests of the Church of England in this coun-
try have not been able to accomplish this point ; and
often have had anxiety and work enough to keep the
ill-provided and dispersed members of that Church,

I in different places, from being ensnared by the entice-
ments of Rome, and absorbed in the mass of her fol-
lowers. And I think that it has not been sufficiently

; considered by some parties, that the effectual plant-
ing of the Church of England, and the exhibition of
that Church under a favourable aspect in the sober
decencies of her ritual and her well-ordered services,
and, above all, in the fruits of scriptural religion,
shown in the temper, the dealings, the principles,
the habits, the whole character and conduct of her
faithful and consistent members, constitute a recom-
mendation of their belief which cannot and does not
fail of its effect upon the Roman Catholic mind, and
not only form a barrier against the encroachments of
Rome, but silently and indirectly do more towards
operating a change of religious sentim'^nt in her dis-
ciples, than some of the zealous efforts which have
been used for making inroads among them. Certain
it is, that in proportion as it pleases God that we
prosper among ourselves, and gather in one the stray
sheep, who in many parts of the country carry, as it
were, no owner's mark, we weaken the cause of Rome,
— since there is no one thing which holds the Roman-
ist so fast to his religion as the contemplation of those

BISHOP OF MONTREAL S

most unhappy distractions and those most humiliating
errors and excesses which it would be too easy for me
to indicate among the Protestants in some portions ot
the land.

The late devoted Bishop Stewart, whose praise is
in all the churches, used to say, with reference to the
Roman Catholic population, '' 1 am not prepared to
attack them." A day may be coming, and I hope
that, by God's grace, we shall be found ready for it,
when our tactics must be changed : possibly a day
may be not very far off, in which we shall be thrown
upon the defensive in a way to try our courage and
endurance. But this is a long digression.

A voluntary and unsolicited movement was made
by some settlers in the outskirts of Mr. Thompson's
charge, in support of the Church Society of the
diocese, with whose operations they had no sooner
been made acquainted, than they came forward with
their contributions— an instance oi ihvit forwardnesii
of mind commended by St. Paul, which deserves to
be recorded.

July 21* — Mr. C. Forest, before the present
vacation one of the Society's students at Bishop's
College, drove me over to Chambly, about a dozen
miles from St. John. The time of his ordination
was coming on. The Rev. Messrs. Dawes and Thomp-
son accompanied me on the road. Thirty-six persons,
of whom five were military, were confirmed in Chambly
church. The congregation consisted of about eighty.
We went to inspect the newly-finished parsonage-
house, a neat cottage close to the church, which Mr.

White
his bri(
I waite,
I At ele^
I at the
I the pui
I place.
I road, b

Jult
La Co
Mr. T

additio
sized s
dedical
church
confirr
of the
will kr
in sucl
tismal
1 by its
\ more <
ratificj
good
part
tratior
prehei

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

imiliating
isy for me
ortions of

praise is
nee to the
epared to
d I hope
dy for it,
bly a day
je thrown
arage and

was made
lompson's
ty of the
no sooner
jvard with
^wardness
jserves to

3 present
Bishop's
t a dozen
>rdination
i Thomp-
t persons,
Chambly
at eighty,
arsonage-
hich Mr.

White was making his preparations to occupy with
his bride. After dining with the Rev. Mr. Braith-
waite, I returned with the same party to St* John.
At eleven o'clock at night the Rev. C. Morice arrived
at the rectory, having come over from La Colle for
the purpose of driving me the next morning to that
place. He had met with sundry misliaps upon the
road, but happily not with any injury.

LA COLLE CHURCH CONSECRATED.

Juh/ 28. — We went to breakfast at Mr. Morice's, at
La Colle, sixteen miles from St. John, Mr. Davis and
Mr. Thompson being again of the party, and three
additional miles brought us to the church, a good-
sized stone building, which I proceeded solemnly to
dedicate to God, by the form of consecration. The
church was well filled, but only seven persons were
confirmed. I baptized a lovely infant, the first child
of the Rev. Mr. Morice. I trust that long before it
will kno7v to refuse the evil and to choose the goody
in such sort as to assume the obligations of the bap-
tismal covenant upon itself, the church now served
by its father will exhibit, upon such occasions, a
more encouraging array of persons uniting in that
ratification, for I am encouraged to believe that a
good leaven is working among the people. This
part of the country was long left without the minis-
trations of the Church, and prejudices and misap-
prehensions are abroad in the neighbourhood, which

BISHOP OP Montreal's

are fostered by those unfriendly to lier interests.
God grant that by the judicious zeal of her ministers,
and the holy example of her people, she may every-
where be enabled to allay the spirit of unkindly
opposition, and to lessen the amount of those lamen-
table divisions which so conspicuously obstruct the
progress of the gospel I God grant that the right-
eousness of our Zion may go forth ashi'ujhtnessy and
the saltation thereof as a lamp that hurneth!

Some of the neighbours having kindly provided
conveyance for me, I proceeded about six miles,
first to the Island aux Noix, crossing the ferry, and
then on to Clarenceville, in the mission of the Rev.
Mr. Townsend, when I became once more his guest.

July 29. — Forty-eight persons were confirmed
this morning in Clarenceville church. From
two hundred and fifty to three hundred were
present. The practice of chanting, which I am
anxious of extending gradually throughout the
diocese, has been introduced — a leading part being
taken by a son of Mr. Townsend's, a medical
student, who is musically gifted. In the afternoon,
Mr. T. took me to Philipsburgh, the distance being
made sixteen miles by a little detour, for the purpose
of visiting a brick church now in progress in the
little village of Newryville, which will make the
third in his mission. It has gone on slowly, but is
well-built, and occupies an excellent site. Mr. Ford,
the catechist, resident at Christieville, whose services
are known to the Society, attends here at stated in-
tervals as a lay reader ; it being impossible that Mr.

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

interests,
ministers,
lay every-
unkindly
se lamen-
jtruct the
the righU
tness, and
h!

provided
six miles,
ferry, and
' the Rev.
his guest,
confirmed
I. From
Ired were
ich I am
;hout the
►art being
medical
afternoon,
nee being
le purpose
ss in the
make the
ly, but is
Mr. Ford,
se services
stated in-
e that Mr.

Townsend can, with all the other duties lying upon
his hands, afford constant Sunday service at this
church.

I was welcomed to my old quarters in the parson-
ao;e at Philipsburgh.

July 30. — This morning the new brick church
in the village of Philipsburgh was consecrated —
four clergymen assisting me, one of whom was from
[the neighbouring diocese of Vermont, in the U.
States— a little incident of an agreeable character,
I since nothing is more soothing, (and I have often
lielt it strongly in travelling and officiating in that
[country,) than to nnd the bond of common-faith and
church-membership, and still more with the added
cord of brotherhood in the ministry, in persons
belonging to a foreign land, living under different,
[and perhaps, in sonre noints, contracted political
linstitutions, and exhibi » »► a different state of man-
Iners and social habits from that which prevails among
[ourselves. How much are we wronged by those who
think that our maintenance of a consistent and un-
fi^mpromising churchmanship proceeds from our
sictual love of party distinctions, and a spirit of gra-
tuitous exclusiveness ! — not aware that a fervent love
)f christian unity, if, at the same time, it be a dis-
ferning love, can never, as I humbly conceive, be
•econciled with a lax and accommodating recognition
)r proceedings, coupled with irregularity and division
>r the body. About one hundred and fifty persons
^vere present at the consecration, of whom nineteen
^vcro oonfirm^M. Tn both cases, and r.^'-cci:;Mr in the

BISHOP OF MONTREAL S

former, the numbers were thinned by a hard and
determined rain, which con tinned all day, and deterred
several persons from coming who lived at a distance,
The church is a neat and well-finished structure,
and has near it some beautiful elms with sweeping
and dependent branches, which greatly ornament the
village.

BEDFORD — UPPER STANBRIDGE.

I had crowded a little too much work into a few
hours in the appointments for this day, and had to
push on with the conveyances provided by my good
brethren of the clergy, in order to be in time for the
confirmation in the afternoon, eight miles distant, at
Bedford, in the mission of the Rev. James Jones,
absent in England upon a tour, in which, by the
divine blessing, he was signally successful, to collect
money for ecclesiastical purposes in his neighbour-
hood. I was received by his family at the newly-
built parsonage, a modest brick edifice, with a little
garden more useful than ornamental, interposed
between its front and the wooded bank of a rapid
little river. Beyond the garden there is a narro^v
and closely sheltered road leading along the river
side through a beautiful grove of pines and other tree>=.
The service in the church was held at four o'clock.
The rain continuing, the congregation here also was
diminished, and some of the more distant candidate;
tor confirmation were prevented from attending.

A hun
sent, a
Jones y
July
parsonj
twelve
ing', so
luntary
miles
exhibiti
and reli
means ]
trust th
seven v
may coi
eight w
hundrec
church,
with on
called 1^
mand T
his pars
emineni
the win
by a sn
and the
of who
took m
I young
table fa
stage of

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

hard and
i deterred
distance,
structure,
sweeping
ament the

nto a few
ad had to
f my good
[me for the
distant, at
Qes Jones,
h, by the
, to collect
leighbour-
he newly-
ith a little
interposed
)f a rapiil

a narro^v

the river
other tree."!,
lur o'clock,
re also ^va^

candidate!

attending.

A hundred persons, however, or upwards, were pre-
sent, and twenty-one were confirmed. The Rev. W.
Jones was in charge, in his father's absence.

Jul^ 31. — After an early breakfast, I left the
parsonage at Bedford, and set out, with a train of
twelve waggons which drew up at my time of start-
infi", some of them occupied by members of a vo-
luntary choir, for Mr. Jones's other church, four
miles oflF, at Upper Stanbridge Mills. The church
exhibits an air of neglec , and the moral, political,
and religious condition of this place is not by any
means hopeful ; but we must hope against hope, and
trust that the Lord has some people here now, the
seven who came forward for confirmation being, we
may comfortably believe, of the number. Twenty-
eight were confirmed in the mission. About one
hundred and twenty persons were present in this
church. The Rev. Mr. Reid had sent over a waggon,
with one of his sons, from Frelighsburg, (otherwise
called St. Armand East, as Philipsburgh is St. Ar-
mand West,) and a drive of six miles brought us to
his parsonage, standing in the church-yard, upon an
eminence overlooking the village which lies among
the winding and finely wooded hills, and is traversed
by a small river. Service was immediately held,
and there were perhaps two hundred persons present,
of whom twenty-one were confirmed. Mr. Reid
took me in the evening to see a most interesting
young female, belonging to one of the most respec-
table families of the village, lying in a far advanced
stage of languishing and hopeless consumption, but

BISHOP OF Montreal's

a humble, resigned, and believing soul, who had been
nursed carefully in the bosom of the Church, and
whose heart had been directed into the loce of God,
and into the patient wailing for Chrif.t,

Mr. Whit well had come on with me from his
mission, and I spent the evening with him at Mr.
Reid's, where we both slept. The two veteran
missionaries, who have borne the brunt of many a
hard day in their obscure but holy warfare, were
talking much of old times, and reverted often to the
recollections of Bishop Stewart, the original mis-
sionary of both the places, then comprised in one
charge, which form their respective cures. Mr.
Reid was ordained to be Dr. Stewart's substitute, in
1815, when the latter paid a visit to England. Dr.
Stewart took a new field of labour after his return,
and Mr. Reid remained, as principal, in the charge.
Mr. "VYhitwell was brought out from home, by Dr.
Stewart, and crossed the Atlantic in his company.

Mr. Reid's church, and all its appendages and
adjuncts, are always in excellent order. He and
his people have lately built a commodious shed near
the church, forming a long range in the shape of the
letter L, for the reception of the horses and sleighs,
during the performance of divine service in winter,
This is a provision against the rudeness of the cli-
mate, often to be found in N. America, and, although
sometimes rather unsightly, it is useful and humane,

VISITATION JOURNAL— 1846.

bad been

ircb, and

of God,

from bis
n at Mr.
) veteran
if many a
are, were
■ten to the
;inal mis-
5d in one
res. Mr.
)Stitute, in
and. Dr.
lis return,
he charge,
le, by Dr.
company,
dages and
He and
shed near
ape of tlie
id sleighs.
in winter,
af the ell-
1, althougli
d humane.

VISIT TO SUTTON.

August 1. — This day was allotted to Sutton, a
lace which I had never before had occasion to visit,
ut which Mr. Reid had long watched over, so far
s his more immediate and proper duties would
)ermit ; and in which Mr. Kemp, one of his pa-
'ishioners, who has also property and carries on
)usines3 in Sutton, has been most zealously engaged
n forwarding and assisting the erection of a church,
jince the establishment of the mission of Brome,
he charge of Sutton has been in the hands of the
ev. Mr. Scott, and it forms one of his regular
itations. It is twelve miles from Frelighsburgh.
was driven over there in Mr. Kemp's waggon and
air, in company with some of his family, all of
hom are attached and consistent members of the
hurch. Our road lay up the side of the Pinnacle
ountain, leaving its extreme summit on our right.
he drive is among the most beautiful in Canada ;
d tiiat is, indeed, saying much : the backward
e\v, from its most elevated point, extends over a
rodigious tract of country, reaching behind Mont-
al to the Lake of the Two Mountains ; and as
u begin to wind down the hill on the other side,
e eye encounters, across the intervening valley
d within the territory of the United States, a
ried exhibition of mountain scenery, range beliind
nge, in continuous irregular lines, and summit
er summit, here gradually rounded off, and there
ing into peaks. >

BISHOP OF MONTREAL S

The late Bishop Stewart, when he was a mis-

sionary at St. Arman(1, some forty years ago, had

a path made through the woods to the top of tlie

Pinnacle Mountain, and half an acre cleared at its

termination, at his own charge ;— a pleasing example 1 ^™

to show that, with all his ceaseless and energetic

a goo
devotedness to the cause of the Gospel, he was not ,

inattentive to the objects of providing beneficial

recreation for his neighbours, and cultivating among

them a relish for the more strikiiifjc scenes of nature.

mine
flieti;
that
Aboi

very
made

CONFIRMATION IN THE UNFINISHED CHURCH AT

SUTTON.

We descended to Sutton Flats, through whicli
a clear little river w^inds its way, and upon whicli
the church and the nascent village are situated,
The church is a plain, solid stone building, o;
moderate dimensions, with a tower in front, and
pierced with Gothic arches for windows. Thest
apertures were now filled up with fresh branche?
of fir, and the church was prepared within, in i
rough and temporary way, for the service, a poin;
which had been only gained by extraordinary exer
tions, animated and headed by Mr. Kemp, alwaj-
acting hand in hand with the clergy. The Rev
Mr. Reid came over with us, and the Rev. Mr. Scot
met us on the spot. As every thing is quite net
here, and the utmost attention which the Churci
could heretofore afford was very scanty, and tb

spiriti
opposi
plants
and d
erectic
presen
two se
We mi
at larg
V mul
nstanc
recise
ler efl
nd pr(
ivithou
roceec
ay, an
lacrity
e pur^
Pirate,
alous
umber

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

,^as a mis-
3 ago, had
top of the
ared at its
ng example
i energetic
he was not
y beneficial
bting amon^
5S of nature.

CHURCH AT

•ongh whlcli

upon whici

ire situated

building, 01

front, and
)ws. Thest
5sli branchei
Iwithin, in 2
•vice, a poin;
'dinary exer
[emp, alway:
The ReT
tev. Mr. Scot
is quite ne?

the Churci

nty.

and tilt

minds of the people had been bewildered by con-
flicting influences, I was not at all surprised to find
that there were only six subjects for confirmation.
About 200 persons were present. I trust that, by
God's blessing, a good foundation has been laid, and
a good feeling is growing towards the Church and
her ministers. There is one evidence of this, of a
very painful character, with which we have been
made but too familiar in our endeavours for the
spiritual benefit of the colony ; — I speak of the
opposition immediately set on foot when the Church
plants her banner with good auguries of success,
and displaying itself in forced measures for the
erection of a rival place of worship, and, in the
present instance, by a coalition, for this object, of
two sects, holding utterly irreconcileable opinions.
We may well deplore whatever faults in the Church
|at large may originally have tended to the production
)r multiplication of dissent ; but here, and in other
instances among us, too marked to be mistaken, it is
irecisely the zeal of the Church, and the promise of
ber efficiency, which have provoked competition,
md prompted the ob. truction of her work — and this
[vithout any possible plea of arrogant or aggressive
roceeding on her part. Happy, indeed, will be the
lay, and it may yet come, when all the spirit and
ilacrity manifested in religious undertakings shall
•e purged of such leaven as this, and we can co-
>perate, upon lawful terms, with those who are now
lalous of our movements ! We dined, with a good
umber of persons who had come over from neigh-

BISHOP OF Montreal's

bouring townships to the confirmation, at Mr. Kemp's,
and his son afterwards drove me on twelve miles to
the parsonage at Coldbrook, in Brorae, where I slept.

been
rathe
churc

confirmation and consecration of the church

AT BROME.

Sunday, Au(just2,—T\\\s> day was the anniversary
of my admission to deacon's orders ; and it was
marked by acts peculiar in one case, and in another
commonly reserved to the office which, in the pro-
vidence of God, putting treasui^e in poor earthen
vessels, I have been permitted to reach. I held two
confirmations, and consecrated a church. The church
at Coldbrook is a neat wooden building, completed
since my last visit. The Rev. Messrs. Balfour and
Slack came over from their respective missions,
accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Salmon, who was on a
visit in the neighbourhood, from Upper Canada, to
assist Mr. Scott and myself in the consecration.
The church was as full as it could well be, probably
more than 300 persons being present, and the heatj
was excessive. Eight persons were confirmed. At!
the close of the services, I administered the sacra-
ment of the Lord's Supper, with assistance from the
clergy ; and there some communicants, who, for the
first time in their lives, I trust not without discern-
ment of the Lord's body, partook of the holy rite,
As it was necessary, for the sake of different parties
present, to advert to all the ceremonies which had

now t
the fo
at Du
confiri
jret th
but th(
A con<
I whom
Cotton
Can add
read th
missior
Cotton
arrange
measur
substan
where,
which
Roman
here, to
Christij
to men
family,

support

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

Kemp's ^^^^ witnessed by the congregation, my sermon was

miles to
e I slept.

rather long, and we were very nearly four hours in
church.

CONFIRMATION AT DURHAM.

CHURCH

Mr. Scott and I had no time to lose ; for he had
now to drive me twenty miles, over a road of which
the former part was intolerably bad, to the church
at Durham Flats, where I had an appointment to
confirm and preach at four o'clock. We did not
<^et there till five; and there were some persons,
but they were extremely few, who had gone away.
A congregation of about 500 persons remained, of
whom thirty-seven were confirmed. The Rev. Mr.
Cotton, the oldest of the Society's missionaries in
Canada, who has a good deal recovered his 'lealth,
read the prayers. Mr. Scott statedly assists in this
mission, receiving a small compensation from Mr.
Cotton. The church, which is very roomy, but ill
arranged and unsightly, is in bad repair, and
measures are in full train for replacing it by a more
substantial and seemly edifice. There are, as every-
where, different sects at the village of the Flats,
which is a rising place in the township ; and the
Roman Catholics have lately established a church
ho, for the here, to add one more to the exhibitions of divided
ut discern-! Christianity. I have had occasion in former journals
je holy rite. Jto mention the different branches of the Bakei*
rent parties ifamily, in this place, — pre-eminent in loyalty and
which had Isupport of the Church, and always forward in hos-

niversary
id it was
n another
I the pro-
►r earthen
I held two
'he church
completed
lalfour and
missions,
was on a
Canada, to
nsecration..
3, probably
id the heat;
irmed. At
the sacra-
e from the

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pitable nttentions to tlio clergy. I slept, ns befoio.
at Mr. W. Baker*?. IMr. Cotton's residence is in
another part of the townsliip.

rnosrECT of a ciiuiicii at nelsonville.

Aftfjust 3. — After an early breakfast, I set out
with Mr. Scott for Nelsonville ; a place of which
the water privileges, in the American phrase, have
led to the erection of mills, and other establishments,
in which some considerable capital is embarked.
There is also a court-house here ; and, altogether,
the prospect of advancing prosperity. Mr. Ruyter,
who keeps a respectable inn, has promised a site for
a church ; and it is hoped that means may, in due
time, be found for making some special and sufficient
provision for divine worship in the village. At
present, Mr. Scott and Mr. Cotton officiate upon
occasion in the court-house. Here I parted with
Mr. Scott ; and Mr. Baker, a son of my host, who
had followed me in a double waggon from Durham
Flats, drove me on to West Shefford church, eighteen
miles from that place. This young man has since
entered the college at Lennoxville. At Wcit
ShefFord, my first mark in the laborious mission ot
the Rev. Mr. Balfour, I was met by that gentleman,
from Waterloo, and also by Mr. Robinson, from the
same place, whose son has been for some time
engaged in preparation for the ministry, at the
college just mentioned. There are three youn

men no^
townshi]
j^rowing
populati
tiie anti
upon its
will be ]
lability.
United S

I founc
some im
amounted
.women, t
kome on.
fof the otl
jparsonage

Anfjust
liles brou

>vhere a c(
>nly six j

>f the rite
Balfour.

lad occas

wciety, ai

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

6;i

befoio,
;o is ill

LLE.

set out
►f which
se, have
shments,
nbarked.
together,
. Kuyter,
a site for
y, in clue
sufficient
ige. At
ite upon
•ted witli
lost, who
Durham
eighteen
has since
A.t West
lission of
ntleman
from the
Dme time
at the
te young

men now there belonging to families in the eastern
townships; and thus the institution, wbich is daily
growing in the confidence of the surrounding
population, is already working that effect of wliich
the anticipation formed one reason for deciding
j upon its locality. The youth of the townships who
will be moulded within its walls, would, in all pro-
bability, have otherwise been sent to colleges in the
United States.

CONFIRMATION AT WEST SIIEFFORD.

I found the church at West ShefFord undergoing
some improvements. The congregation, which
amounted to about 150 persons, consisted chiefly of
women, the crisis of the hay-making having just
icome on. Thirteen females were confirmed — none
|of the other sex. Mr. Balfour drove me on to the
iparsonage at Waterloo, a distance of eight miles. .

CONFIRMATION AT FROSTE VILLAGE.

August 4. — A distance of between tw^o and three
iles brought me to the church of Froste Village,
ivhere a confirmation was this mornin^j to be held.
Only six persons presented themselves as recipieus
)f the rite ; making nineteen in the mission of Mr.
ialfour. The Eev. Mr. Hellmuth, whom I have
lad occasion to mention more than once to the
5ociety, as Professor of Hebrew and Rabbinical

BISHOP OF MONTREAL S

Literature in the college, himself a converted Jew,
passing through this part of the country in his tour
during the vacation, preached upon this occasion.
There were, perhaps, 100 persons present.

There is a highly beautiful view, comprehending
lake, forest, mountain, and valley, from the top ol
a hill on the road from Waterloo to Froste Village.

NEW CHURCH AT WATERLOO.

The new church at Waterloo is proceeding very
slowly; but it is a neat building, and of excellent
workmanship, built of wood. It stands well, upon
a rising ground, at the head of one of the little
streets of the village.

In the evening, the Rev. Mr. Slack, who had come
over from Granby Village, distant twelve miles, for ]
the purpose, drove me to his house, where I slept,
and, at this point, fell back into the road which I
had travelled in the end of June, on my way from
Bishops' College to Montreal. r i

CONFIRMATION AND CONSECRATION OF THE CHURCB

AT GRANBY.

August 5.— Mr. Slack's house, which is his ovvi
property, standing exactly opposite to his churcli
although it is built of wood, has, with its whol<
premises, an English style and air about it, not a

allu
of w
as til
comf
and ;
own
from
god fa
sterli
gave
with
I was (
clergy
confir
distan
the c
churcl
marks
next t
a sen
fitted
for oul
in all
in mo
way h
Ab(
and p<
place,
the ne;
to sup
Churc

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

erted Jew,
in hi3 tour
s occasion.

prehending

the top of

te Village.

geding very
)f excellent
i well, upon
if the little

10 had come
e miles, for
ere I slept,
3ad which I
ly way from

HE CHURCB

is his owl
his churd
h its wholt
ut it, not ai

all usual in the Canadian townships. The church,
of which the frame had been put up before he came,
as the first resident missionary, to the spot, has been
completed, in a great measure, through his exertions,
and not, I believe, without a large outlay from his
own means. He has also been helped by friends
from England. A gentleman there, who was his
godfather, and who had previously given 20/.
sterling, through his hands, to Bishops' College,
gave 50/. sterling to this church, and presented it
with the communion-plate besides. The church
was consecrated, in which ceremony I had seven
clergymen to assist me. Twenty-nine persons w^ere
confirmed. The burying-ground, which lies at some
distance, very nicely laid out, was consecrated after
the conclusion of the services in church. The
churchyard and the burying-ground are both re-
markably well enclosed, and the former is planted
next the road by an avenue of trees, in the form of
a semicircle. The church itself is finished and
fitted up in a manner which would afford a model
for our country churches in Canada, if only we had,
in all cases, the same advantages at command ; but,
in most of our poor settlements, we are a sad long
way from that.

About 250 persons were present in tlie church,
and portions of the service were chanted. In this
place, a little more than three years ago, although
the nearest missionaries on both sides did their best
to supply occasional ministrations, the hopes of the
Church were almost prostrate, and the hearts of her

BISHOP OF MONTREAL S

people were faint. I have seen, in many remarkable
instances, in this diocese, and often not without a
rebuke brought home to myself, the duty exemplified
of waiting on the Lord, and tarrying his leisure.

The church stands in a portion of a lot of ten
acres, which (as I have mentioned in a former
journal,) was a gift from the Rev. T. Johnson of
Abbotsford. The burying-ground was the gift of
Mr. Guerout, brother of the Society's missionary
at the Riviere du Loup en Haut.

•

qualifi
their j
I re
house
tous n
(mono
as in s
and th
are p<
Indian
a clean
of som
\ useless

CONFIRMATION AT ABBOTSFORD.

August 6. — Mr. Slack having provided convey-
ances, we drove over, he himself and Mrs. Slack and
Mr. Hellmuth being of the party, to the Rev. Mr-
Johnson's at Abbotsford. The interior of the
church at this place has been much improved and
made very neat. Twenty persons were confirmed,
whom I addressed something in the form of a familiar
sermon, but I had also appointed Mr. Hellmuth to
preach to the congregation. From 120 to 150 were
present. There is one advantage arising out of the
prevalence of schism and the constant discussion
about the emptiness of mere forms, proceeding from
a desire to fix the charge of formality upon the
Church, that there is an increased scrupulousness
engendered among our people in considering their

Aitg
1 this nei
* the dis[
\ any set
] mont h
[ in passj
ito Moi
I June.
I to go
I John so
I partly i
mounta
and Le

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

imarkable
without a
:emplified
eisure.
ot of ten
a former
obnson of
16 gift of
lissionary

qualifications, and preparing their hearts to take
their part in the special solemnities of their religion.
I remained as the guest of Mr. Johnson, whose
house directly faces, at a short distance, the precipi-
tous mountain of Yamaska. A remarkable plant
(monotropa uniflora,) is found upon this mountain,
as in some other parts of Canada, of which the stem
and the leaves, as well as the flower in all its parts,
are perfectly white. It is called familiarly the
Indian Pipe, and in fact has no small resemblance to
a clean common tobacco pipe, supposing the addition
of some little foliaceous decorations to that article of
useless indulgence.

1 convey-
Slack and
Kev. Mr
r of the
oved and
onfirmed,
a familiar
llmuth to
1.50 were
out of the
discussion
ding from
upon the
ulousness
•ing their

VISIT TO ST. HYACINTH.

August 7. — I had reserved a spare day or two for
this neighbourhood, and had placed my services at
the disposal of Mr. Johnson and Mr. Slack, to visit
any settlements which they might fix upon. Rouge-
mont had already been attended to in this manner,
in passing through here on my way from Lennoxville
to Montreal, as mentioned in noting the 30th of
June. An engagement had now been made for me
to go to St. Hyacinth, fourteen miles from Mr.
Johnson's. The road winds through a flat country,
partly along the margin of the river Yamaska, the
mountain of the same name, with those of Rougemont
and Lelseil, rising' abruptly in view, in their several

BISHOP OF MONTREAL S

detached masses, from the extended plain. The
boldest of these heights is that of Belseil ; and upon
the most elevated point of its rocky summit, the
Bishop of Nancy in France, who made a circuit
through Canada some few years ago, erected, with a
great train and a vast deal of pomp and ceremony, a
huge cross, I think sixty feet high, covered with tin,
flashing far and wide in the sun, and visible at a
vast distance, from different parts of the surround-
ing country. This prelate, who was a nobleman,
(Comte de Forbin Janson,) and all whose energies
and influence were entirely devoted to the object of
advancing the power of the Church of Rome, was
in the habit of preaching to immense crowds of
people for several consecutive days at the same spot,
as he travelled about the country^ and had tht
reputation, among the superstitious or the ignorant,
of working miracles. He was in a manner an idol
to them himself, and memorials of his visits are
standing in a number of different parishes. The
cross on the Belseil mountain is now a resort for a
species of pilgrimage, and helps to nourish an er-
roneous "devotion among the people. I do not
repudiate the emblematical cross with which we are
signed, when the mercy of God in Christ first reacliej
us in our baptism, or with which our churches are
crowned as the material symbol of our faith : the
dislike of these usages partakes, itself, in my judgment,
of superstition ; but it is impossible not to mourn over
the misapplication of such zeal, such perseverance,
and such reusorces as those to which I have just

adverte
been n
iatellig
Christy
the um

It Wi

ling of

; populat

St. H^

hearts,

stratior

: resemb

•of the '.

'togethe

'duct th

\ reveren

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^provide

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been ac

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and I p:

station f]

Ibuildini:

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have be

I them, t(

! to an es

seigneu]

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

ain. The
and upon
mmit, the
i a circuit
ted, with a
sremony, a
d with tin,
isible at a
surround-
nobleman,
se energie.<
le object of
Rome, was
crowds of
; same spot,
d had the
e ignorant,
er an idol
visits are
shes. The
esort for a
rish an er
I do not
ich we are
rst reaches
urches are
faith : the
r judgment
nourn over
rseverance,
'. have just

adverted, and ardently to wish that they could have
been made available for teaching men rightly and
iatelligently to f/lori/ in the cross of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and for truly making known among them
the unsearchable riches of that only hope of sinners.
It was for the sake of a very little flock, a sprink-
ling of Protestants in the mass of the Romish
s population, that the clergy had planned my visit to
St. Hyacinth ; and in order to encourage their
hearts, as w^ell as to make what they called a demon-
stration in the eyes of the Romanists, though little
■ resembling or desiring to resemble the proceedings
iof the Bishop of Nancy, it was their wish to bring
* together a few brethren in the ministry, and to con-
duct the services with all the seemly and chastened
i reverential efiect and all the judicious aids to
5 devotion, for which the Church of England has
j provided. I proceeded accordingly to the court-
Miouse of the village, with the use of which we had
ibeen accommodated, attended by four clerfrymen,
jand having robed in an adjoining room, we held
I service in that which was fitted up for the sittings
I of the Court. Portions of the service were chanted,
^and I preached to about seventy persons, a depu-
tation from whom waited upon me, before I left the
; building, with an address. They were exceedingly
anxious, while they appreciate the great efforts which
have been made at intervals by the clergy to visit
them, to have some arrangement more approaching
to an established provision for public w^orship. The
J seigneur of the place, although a Romanist, has

1
I
I

BISHOP OF 3I0NTREAL S

promised them a beautiful site upon the crest of a
hill on which part of the village is built, in the
immediate neighbourhood of a dense grove of pines,
and a scattered group of deciduous trees. Here they
purpose to erect a building, in the first instance,
which shall serve both for a school-house and for the
purposes of divine worsliip, hoping ultimately to put
up a church. It has since been arranged that they
should have service once a month, Mr. Johnson and
Mr. Slack taking a leading part in this labour, and
Mr. Scott of Brome (who was one of the clergy in
my company) undertaking to come over at appointed
times from his own more distant mission to one
of theirs, when they should visit here. The two
clergymen resident at Sorel, twenty-four miles off,
have also promised to help, the congregation at St.
Hyacinth most cheerfully undertaking to provide
conveyance.

St. Hyacinth is rather a flourishing Roman Ca-
tholic village, with a population of 2,000 souls,
a market, a large church, a convent and a college,
this name being given to the different establishments
for school education in Lower Canada which are
founded under the auspices of the Romish Church.
We dispersed about the village to dine with
different Protestant families, my own h'dlet falling
upon the house of an enterprising American, who
conducts a foundry and a manufacture of agricultural
implements in the place. Towards evening we set
out on our return to Mr. Johnson's, leaving Mr.
Hellmuth, who was to proceed hence to Montreal,

to per
Johns(
out of
drench
on the
but no
he is i
effect (
Au(j
I spent
to Gra
The dr
to go a
rocky 1
at the
edge, !
blosson

CON FIR

Aug\
miles
had rer
proceed
met us
which ]
it were
permit,

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

?rest of a
it, in the

of pines,
Elere thev

instance,
nd for the
;ely lo put
that they
hnson and
hour, and

clergy in
appointed
)n to one

The two

miles off,
ion at St.
D provide

to perform a second service to the people. Mr.
Johnson, in fording the river, was upset and thrown
out of his waggon ; he was, of course, thoroughly
drenched, as was a neighbour who accompanied him
on the trip, and he lost his umbrella and his wig,
but no other damage, happily, ensued, although, as
he is in delicate health, I was apprehensive of the
effect of his evening drive in wet clothes.

August 8. — This day, the greater part of which
I spent in writing letters, I returned with Mr. Slack
to Granby, having further duties yet in his mission.
The day being intensely hot, I took an opportunity
to go and bathe in the narrow little river, sunk in a
rocky bed between steep wooded banks, which flows
at the back of his church, and found, at the water's
edge, specimens of the lobelia cardinalis in full
blossom.

Oman Ca-
00 souls,
a coUer/e,
Jishments
irhich are
Church,
line with
let falling
lean, who
ricultural
ig we set
Mr.

vnig

Montreal,

CONFIRMATION AND CONSECRATION OF THE CHURCH

AT MILTON.

August 9. — Mr. Slack's church at Milton, nine
miles off, was to be consecrated this day. Mr. Scott
had remained to assist in the ceremony, and we all
proceeded together to the spot, where Mr. Johnson
met us from Abbotsford. This little church, of
which I have sent home a drawing to the Society, if
it were only of stone, which circumstances did not
permit, would be an excellent pattern for our churches

BISHOP OF MONTREAL S

in the woods ; its square embattled tower, projected
from the building, and ornamented with the dial
plate (although it is but in seeming) oF a clock ; its
gothic windows, with the panes in the lozenge form ;
its neat and ecclesiastical, although simple and
unpretending, fitting-up in the interior ; its open seats
instead of pews, — a condition being inserted in the
deed of gift from Mr. Slack, who owned the site,
that no leased sittings of any kind shall ever be
put up, — give it altogether a style and character whicli
is properly associated with the edifices erected for
the worship of the Church of England. The under-
taking was commenced since the formation of the
mission and the appointment of Mr. Slack ; and to
him it is in many ways indebted for having been
brought to its completion. Upon the present
occasion it was much crowded ; the congregation
consisting of about 180 persons, and there being
regular accommodation for only 150. Thirteen
were confirmed, after the ceremony of consecration
had been gone through. It was the first episcopal
visit to the place.

SERVICE IN THE UNFINISHED CHURCH AT WATERLOO.

I had an appointment in the evening, to revisit
Mr. Balfour's mission, in order to preach at Waterloo
in the unfinished church, mentioned in the notes of
the 4th of August ; and, after stopping at Mr.

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

ojected
lie dial
^k ; its
3 form ;
le and
en seats
i in the
the site,
ever be
jr which
cted for
I under-
i of tlie
; and to
ng been

present
Tegation

e being
Thirteen
secration

piscopal

Slack's for some refreshment, I was driven on the

remaining twelve miles by a son of Mr. Robinson of

Waterloo, who came over for me. The building

was roughly prepared for the occasion, and perhaps

200 persons were assembled. I was violently ill for

a short time, at the liouse where I stopped to robe,

from an attack of what is called in Canada the cAo/era

of the country, to distinguish it from the Asiatic

disease of the same name. This was possibly brought

on by interposing a hurried meal at Mr. Slack's,

between two drives in excessive heat. I could not

go into the church during the prayers ; but, in proof

of that fitness for my labours in point of physical

constitution with which it has pleasea my Maker to

bless me, I preached without any inconvenience to

I myself or difference of effect perceptible by my

hearers.

Mr. Slack has three full services every Sunday :
at Granby, where he lives; at Milton; and at the
South Ridge in Granby, where there is as yet no
church, but a very good congregation. Forty- two
persons, in all, were confirmed in his mission.

.TERLOO.

lo revisit

'aterloo

notes of

at Mr.

VILLAGE AT THE OUTLET OF LAKE MEMPHRAMAGOG.

August 10. — This day was spent in travelling from
[Waterloo to the Rev. Mr. Jackson's house in Hatley,
a distance of thirty-five miles. A Mr. Barton, of
[West Stafford, at whose house Mr. Balfour puts up

BISHOP OF MONTKEAL S

when lie goes there to officiate, obligingly sent me
a waggon and pair, driven by his son. Tiie road,
after leavintr Stokeley, winds among woods, where it
forms almost the only interruption of the wildness
of nature, under the base of the dark and rugged
Orford mountain, the highest land in those town-
ships; and passing one or two small lakes in this
portion of its course, conducts you to the outlet of
the magnificent Lake Meniphramagog, where you stop
to refresh yourself and your horses, there being a
little incipient village with two inns at the spot.
There is also a small place of worship, with a steeple,
which might be taken for the church of the village;
but it is assigned over to no religious body whatever,
and is at present served only by a coloured man, a
Baptist by profession, who comes from a distance to
preach in it once in four weeks, exciting, from all
that I could learn, very little interest, in any shape,
upon the subject of religion. The building is much
out of repair. Had the government of Christian
Britain done its duty before God for its transat-
lantic subjects, or even kept its pledges to the I
Church, there might, by the divine blessing, have
been formed here, and in many other unprovided |
spots where religion is running to waste, a company
of united faithful worshippers, walking in the com-
manclments and ordinances blameless. Even now. I
there was a desire expressed to me to receive tlie
ministrations of the Church ; but I learnt afterwards
that some overtures made by our clergy had been
l)ut coldly received.

VISITATION JOURNAL— 1846.

sent me
le road,
\liere it
wildness
I rugged
se town-
s in this
outlet of
; you stop
i being a
the spot.
a steeple,
e village;
whatever,
ed man, a
listance to
from all
ny shape,
or is much
Christian
3 transat-
es to the
sing, have I
nprovided
company
I the cow-
A'en now. I
iceive tlie
if ter wards
had been

I went to Cattra in the river at the outlet, and
found there again the lobelia cardlnaUs with its
brilliant scarlet flowers, in this instance in extra-
ordinary vigour and profusion.

A straight road leads up hence towards Hatley,
and after the ascent of a considerable eminence, the
backward view through this wooded vista upon the
mountain heads is very striking and beautiful. We
then came among scattered settlements ; and skirt-
ing, for some distance, the edge of Lake Massiwippi,
struck off to the village of Charleston, in Hatley, a few
miles distant, where the church of the mission is
situated, and proceeded on a mile further to the
house of Mr. Jackson, which I reached about six
o'clock.

CONFIRMATION AT CHARLESTON IN HATLEY.

August 11. — Twenty-six persons were confirmed

jtliis day in Charleston village church. Rather more

than a hundred were present. The Rev. Mr. Balfour

followed me from Waterloo, and the Rev. C. Reid

came over from Compton ; these gentlemen took

some part in our services. The village is

jnamed after the late Bishop Stewart, who planted

the Church in this place, after leaving St. Armand,

|and whose first christian name was Charles. The

i^hurch is gaining in this mission in a sure kind of

^vay, although not with any very conspicuous effects,

IS matters for description.

I saw here a variety which was new to me in

BISHOP OF MONTREAL 8

natural history. I was waked up in the morning of
tills (lay, at Mr. Jackson's house, by a cat who
bounded into the room, with a bird in her mouth,
over the blind of the open window. As she passed
out the other way, I observed that she had no tail.
This, I concluded, was owing to some accident or
injury by which she had been deprived of it ; but I
found that she was one of the tail-less cats which
are not very uncommon in this part of the country,
and that kittens are found in the same litter, some
with tails and some without.

Mr. Jackson and other clergymen, including those
at Bishops* College, have made an arrangement for
giving a monthly service to a small congregation of
Church- people at Stanstead, just upon the American
frontier, precisely similar to that which I have de-
scribed as having been put in train for the benefit of |
the Protestants at St. Hyacinth.

I went on with the Rev. C. Reid to dine and sleep i
at his house in Compton. We were accompanied by|
Mr. Jackson. The distance is only eight miles.

CONFIRMATION AT COMPTON.

August 12. — About seventy or eighty persons were
present at the confirmation, of whom ten were re-
cipients of the rite. I also baptized an adult female
during the service, whom Mr. Reid had duly pre-
pared for the act. Some part was taken in the dutj
by Messrs. Jackson and Balfour, who had come on
to Compton.

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

4 I

)rning of
cat who
r mouth,
tie passed
1 no tail,
icident or
it ; but I
ats which
3 country,
tier, some

ding those
;einent for
•egation of
J American
I have de-
B benefit of

e and sleep
npanied by |
t miles.

SECOND CHUnCII IN COMPTON.

I regretted tliat my arrangements had not been
so made as to admit of my going to see the second
church in the township, which Mr. Reid has been
making great efforts to push on towards its comple-
tion, at Waterville, where he has been in the habit
of officiating in a school-house. Mr. Reid after-
wards drove me twenty-four miles, tlirough Lennox-
villa to Eaton, where I reached the house of the
Rev. Mr. Taylor at eight o'clock.

CONFIRMATION AT EATON.

August 13. — Ten persons were confirmed in
Eaton church. Sixty or seventy were present.
The practice of chanting has been introduced here
by Mr. Taylor's family. The Rev. Mr. King had
come over from Bury, and, as well as Mr. Reid,
assisted in the services. This mission has unavoid-
ably suffered from the long continued ill-health of
Mr. Taylor, although, during part of the time, he
had a curate. He is now very conriiderably better,
and attributes his restoration to the use of the
Caledonia Springs on the Ottawa river.

NEW CHURCH IN THE MISSION OF BURY.

I went on with Mr. King to Bury, and drove first
to his new church on the Dudswell road, a small, neat,

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wooden edifice, very well built, but not completed,
and very coarsely painted within. We then returned
to sleep at his residence in Robinson village; having
driven sixteen miles. This is a building put up by
the Land Company for a school-house, with apart-
ments for the master, but occupying a site which
forms part of the lands surrendered back to the
government. The Church of England having, from
the first, kept a school in the building, under tlie
auspices of the Newfoundland and British North
American School Society, which was a central
establishment, having many dependencies of the
same nature in the neighbourhood, and having also
occupied the spacious school-room on Sundays for
public worship, for which purpose some necessary
alterations were made within it, we have acquired
a kind of prescriptive right in the premises, in the
exercise of which I do not think we ought to be
disturbed ; bul; the title is in the local government,
and what immediate party, or whether any can claim,
as of legal right, the administration of the property
as it stands, are questions perfectly unsettled.

CONFIRMATION AT ROBINSON VILLAGE IN BURY.

Anffiist 14. — Service was held in the above-
described school-house at Robinson. From 150 to
200 persons were present, chiefly settlers from
England. According to my best recollection,
either fourteen or eighteen were the number con-

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

firmed. I also baptized a child of the Rev. Mr.
King. Some troubles had been going on in this
mission very difficult to deal with, and some spirits
were active in the place whose proceedings were not
likely to allay them. I held a meeting after service
— I might call it a kind of court of general inquiry
into these troubles, which I shall no otherwise de-
scribe here than by saying, that, in spite of all my
endeavours, it assumed a kind of tumultuary cha-
racter by no means proper in itself, nor conducive
to the ends of truth and justice, but which was
occasioned in great part by the noisy demonstrations
on the part of the majority, of good will towards
their minister. I became quite satisfied, however,
that it would be for Mr. King's happiness and use-
fulness, all things considered, to remove to another
field of labour ; and the arrangement has accord-
ingly been since made, an advantageous one to him,
which has been submitted for confirmation to the
Society. I believe that he is doing exceedingly
well in his enlarged sphere of action.

SECOND NEW CHURCH IN THE MISSION OF BURY.

Mr. King has put up another new church in the
mission, on the Victoria road ; but my ulterior
appointments obliged me to return in the evening to
Eaton, and the business of the meeting, with matters
arising out of it, had barely left me time to do so.
I failed, therefore, to see this church.

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August 15. — After an early breakfast, Mr. Taylor
drove me to Leniioxville, fourteen miles, where I
had an appointment to meet the college corporation
on special business at ten, a.m. This business
occupied the day. I put up at ray old quarters in
the parsonage.

NEW CHURCH AT LENNOXVILLE. CONFIRMATION IN

THE OLD ONE.

Sunday J August 16. — Hopes had been entertained
when I was here in the end of June, that the new
church might be ready for consecration against my
return ; but it was found impossible to effect the
object. It is a brick building, with lancet windows,
and a square tov/er projected from the front, upon
which it is intended to raise a spire. The old
wooden church, although large, is a miserable affair.
I held a confirmation in it for the last time, and
preached to 100 persons or upwards. The number
confirmed was fourteen. Immediately after morning
services there came on one of the most violent
thunder-storms which I remember to have witnessed,
and the wind which blew might well be called a
hurricane. This was the first rain for a great lengtli
of time.

CONFIRMATION AT SllERBROOKE.

The storm cleared off before I had occasion to
proceed to Sherbrooke, three miles and a half, where
a confirmation was to be held in the a.^ternoon.

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ATION IN

Here I preached to about 200 persons, and con-
firmed eight. The church is of the same material
iind in the same style as that of Lennoxville. Tliere
is an organ, and there are some excellent singers in
the choir, some of whom are gentlemen and ladies
belonging to the first society in the place ; but they
have lately had an American teacher, and their style
of chanting has been affected by this circumstance
in a manner which is new and not pleasing to an
English ear.

I was the guest of the Rev. Mr. Wait, a most
particular friend of my own, whose services I was
so fortunate as to secure for the trifling compensation
provided by the congregation, at a time when the
failing health of Mr. Doolittle created an additional
reason for separating the important village of Sher-
brooke from the cure at Lennoxville, and the good
of the Church being concerned, I was sure of the
I concurrence of Mr. D. himself. Extraordinary efforts
jhave been made by other parties to plant their own
istandard in the village, since the appointment of Mr.
I Wait, and a good deal of religious excitement prevails
in a certain circle of the population, of a nature, how-
ever, which is likely to subside, Mr. Wait has
certainly not provoked all this, by any deficiency of
Imeekness, or by any offensive peculiarities in any
shape whatever, in the discharge of his duties. He
m\ Mrs. Wait (for I grieve to say that his health
hvill compel him to return to Europe) will leave
jbehind them the most lively and affectionate regrets
>f those to whom he has ministered.

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VISIT TO MELBOURNE.

August 17.— The former part of this day was oc-
cupied by writing letters, and transacting business
at Mr. Wait's, and visiting some prominent indivi-
duals in the place. Mr. Nicolls, the principal of thf^
college, assumed his place once more as my chaplain
for the downward route, and drove me to Melbourne,
twenty-four miles from Sherbrooke, which we reached
between 8 and 9 p.m., and put up at the inn — a w^ord,
however, which is hardly known in Canada. The
liouses of entertainment are all taverns or hotels,
and this latter name is given to very inferior esta-
blishments, upon the most confined scale, in mere
country places. The P^ench population, which is
more singular, apply the term, all over the country,
in the ?ame manner : and from the state of education
which has thus far prevailed, often mis-spell it. I
have seen it spelt on the sign-boards autel^ and tlii^
in a curious accidental conjunction ivith the name of
some Saint, which is very generally the name of a
parish, e. g. Autel de Saint Andre,

Aufjmt 18. — I had postponed the confirmation at
Mt4bourne, for the state of Mr. Fleming's healti
had, at one time, caused an interruption of his dutit n
and there were circumstances, within the missiori.
into which I hadoccasiam to in^itute some inquirieN
I remained all day for this purpose at the inn, takiii'i
advantag'^ also of this b^reathing space in my jr>iir-
ney, to work off som- portion of the accumulate!

claims
much
Mr.

princi]
side of
cation
any ha
which (
straine
tation
upon a
ing hoi
whom,
are ele^
quarter
might 1
nant wi
of gosp
selves ^
this is t
and tha
nised be
taken fc
neither
tation of
libit nm
another

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

ly was oc-
; business
nt indivi-
ipal of the
jr chaplain
Melbourne,
kve reached
1 — a word,
lada. The

or liotels,
ferior esta-
e, in mere
1, which is
le countrv,

■ education 1
spell it. 1 1
'/, and thi«

he nameot

name of a I

ng*s

irmation at
healt'i
his dutit n|
le missiori.
e in(}uirie^
inn, takiiv:!
n mv jonr-
ccumuhiteil

claims of official correspondents, in which I was
much aided by Mr. Nicolls.

Mr. Fleming, whose own church, with part of his
principal congregation, is in Shipton, on the opposite
side of the river St. Francis, is truly, in an appli-
cation of the words, which I do not make with
any harshness of meaning, to the unhappy divisions
which exist among the followers of Christianity, con-
strained to dwell with Mesechy and to have his hahi-
tation among the tents of Kedar, His house stands
upon a line and in close proximity with a row of meet-
ing houses, belonging to different denominations, of
whom, within the limits of his whole mission, then?
are eleven varieties — fostered, unfortunately, in some
quarters, by an influence and by resources which
micfht be turned to account in amanner more conso-
nant with the real advancement and hopeful stability
of gospel truth. And there are persons among our-
selves who actually persuade their own mindo that
this is tlie Christian Church in its legitimate r.spect,
and that the multiplication of these separately orga-
nised bodies, one after another, upon new grounds
taken for holding an independent existence, involves
neither breach of spiritual unity nor mutual impu-
tation of serious error ! Christ may be divided ad
libit nm : one may be of Paul, another of Cephas,
another of ApoUos, and so on ad infnituin — but
this is not schism ; the spirit of schism is rather
seen in the disapproval of it, which is presumed to
carry a feeling of unchristian ill-will toward those
who differ from us !

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There are, however, characteristics attaching, in
some particular instances, to the divisions here
immediately in view, which no sober and well-prin-
cipled mind could complacently regard.

NEW CHURCH COMMENCED IN MELBOURNE.

In i-he course of the day, Mr. Nicolls drove me
to the Gallup district, three miles back from the
river, to inspect the frame of a small church, of
whicli Mr. Fleming has procured the erection, in
the neighbourhood (i o. spot where he has long at-
tended a second cc ngregation. It is proceeding
slowly, and v;Uli iitterruptions— but will, I trust, in
God's gooc iime, "n;- completed.

I have s'nce rN(;v. 1846] made an arrangement
for the removal of Mr. Fleming to New Glasgow,
which it remains for the Society to confirm ; and
have provided, tempoi'arilyf for the performance of
the duty in the Melbourne mission, by giving the
charge of it to Mr. Lonsdell, resident ten miles oiF,
with the maintenance of whose own mission I have
not thought it just to the Society that its funds
should continue to be burthened, however unwilling
to abandon any ground which the (^hu^'ch has once
taken up. It does not follow that it is abandoned
for ever : nor, possibly, for any very great length of
time.

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

3hing, in
ons here
vell-prin-

URNE.

drove me
from the
church, of
rection, in
IS long at-
proceeding
I trust, in

rrangement
V Glasgow,
nfirm ; and
brmance of
giving the
miles off,
sion I have
its funds
r unwilling
h has once
abandoned
at length of

VISIT TO DANVILLE, AND CONFIRMATION OF ONE

AGED PERSON.

August 19. — We crossed the river, and the Rev.
Mr. Lonsdell met me on the other side, to proceed
to Danville, upon the borders of Shipton and Ting-
wick, where he resides. At one point of the road,
there is a magnificent view over a deep and exten-
sive valley, bounded by irregular and varied heights.
The Society are aware that Mr. Lonsdell has made
efforts, in several directions, to gather a flock to-
gether, nor is it to be believed that his labours have
been wholly unblessed, or have carried no benefit to
any souls. But the causes to which I have just
above adverted have been in particular activity,
and with recent aggravation of their power, in his
neighbourhood; and his hopes of building a church,
or building up spiritually the system of the Church
of England among the people, for the present, are
prostrate. I do not think it at all desirable that we
should appear ambitious of forcing ourselves any
where upon the peoi)le, glad as we must be to afford
them our ministrations when they are appreciated,
and to be pernr itted to become instrumental to the
furtherance of their salvation.

Upon the present occasion, the evening service of
the church was perlbrmed in Mr. Lonsdell's own
house, at two o'clock, and I preached to little more
than a dozen person.s his family beinuj included. One
aged luul feeble man was confirmed. He came, I am
convinced, in a thoroughly humble, believing, and
christian spirit, lie was originally a (dissenter, and

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possessed with exceedingly strong prejudices against
the Church. His wife, an American Episcopalian,
had all along stood immovably firm against the va-
riety of attacks made upon her Communion, by her
neighbours and persons who came about the house.
Iler husband, in these discussions, at length bent
himself to the task of candid examination, and, in
the result, embraced the system of the Church. All
preparatory steps having been properly gone through,
under the direction of Mr. Lonsdell, he came for-
ward alone in the little assembly, to seal with willing
lips the covenant of hij baptism, and, professing his
faith in his Saviour Christ, he bowed his knees, and
bent his hoary head, to receive the benediction and
prayers of the Church. It was his own strong desire
to be confirmed. He and his wife are constant and
devout readers of the bible.

VISIT TO UPPER DURHAM.

August 20. — Mr. Lonsdell drove me through
Kingsey to the ferry opposite to Upper Durham
church, (within the charge of Mr. Butler, being
attached to the mission of Kingsey,) to which the
party crossed over, and I preached there to about
forty or fifty persons. Several young persons had
been prepared, or had been in course of preparation,
for confirmation : but a misunderstanding had arisen,
and a difticulty had been created among the parents,
upon the subject of some particular requirements

which
matter
better
late dii
train, ;
to the
countrj
])resent
togethe
at Kinj
this daj

CONFi:

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well as
(lay, is J
early Ei
upon a
has bee]
the site!
church
Captain)
who haj
Kingse^
erectioi
contribj
England
hehalf,
Rate, inl

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

s against
copalian,
t the va-
1, by her
le house,
gth bent
t, and, in
rch. All
through,
iame for-
:h willing
issing his
nees, and
ction and
)ng desire
stant and

through
' Durham
er, being
which the
e to about
irsons had
eparation,
ad arisen,
le parents,
[uirernents

which had been pressed upon the candidates, and
matters had not been adjusted when I came. A far
better feeling has since prevailed. I returned to a
late dinner at the parsonage, in Kingsey, where my
train, if I may so call it, was rather burthensome
to the hospitality, most cheerfully tendered, of a
country missionary, the clergy themselves who were
present amounting to seven besides myself, drawn
together in preparation for consecrating the church
at Kingsey on the morrow. The whole journey of
this day was one of twenty-six miles.

CONFIRMATION AT KINGSEY, AND CONSECRATION

OF THE CHURCH.

Augiist2\, — The church at Kingsey, which, as
well as the burying-ground, was consecrated this
day, is a white wooden building, in imitation of the
early English style, with a tower and spire. It stands
upon a level opening in the woods, where a village
has been commenced by Mr. Longmore, who gave
the site of the church and parsonage- house. The
church is enclosed by a neat and substantial fence.
Captain Cox, a half-pay officer of the British army,
who has established his family for some years in
Kingsey, has used great exertions to forward the
erection of these buildings, and has received liberal
contributions towards the object from friends in
England. Special acknowledgments are due in this
hehalf, to the lady of Sir John Croft, Bart., of Mill-
Rate, in Kent, who, besides an original contribution

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of lo/. sterlinjr, finding that a debt upon the church
created an impediment to its consecration, and being
informed of tlie approaching episcopal visit, took
that bar out of the way by at once assuming the
responsibility of the wliole debt upon herself; and I
have since learnt that she has redeemed her pled^^e
by the remittance of 50/. sterling, of which it
is believed that 10/. is a second contribution from
herself.

About eighty persons were present at the cere-
mony of consecration, and eight were confirmed.

A large and most respectable party afterwards
assembled at Woodlands, the residence of Mr. Long-
more, and partook of a handsome collation. The
house and its accessories, although not completed,
and far less advantageously situated, in point of natu-
ral scenery, than most others in the township, are
very English, and this effect was heightened by the
tone and appearance of the company present. The
Kev. Mr. Ross, of Druramondville, drove me after-
wards to his house, about fourteen miles from Kinu:-
sey, and Mr.Nicolls and Mr. Butler came on to be his
guests as well as myself. We took an unfrequented
road, as being shorter, and passed through very
beautiful scenery, of different kinds, in the latter
part of a delicious afternoon. At first it was a fine
forest scene, unharmed by the hand of man ; the
narrow road which just gave us passage through the
tall and close woods of deciduous growth, beinff tlie
only sign of his interference with the wildness of
nature : it then changed its character, and becaire

more
again
o]»eniii
then r<
Franci
among
fringec
by flo "^
but th(
landscii
threw
pronior
left to 1
before
but ims
make u
themsel
me be p
detail,
about ?i
side, ill
till we
mother,
der to

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ind being
isit, took
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If; andl
er pledge
which it
:ioii from

the cerc-
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fter wards
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it of natu-
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ed by the
jnt. The
me after-
om King-
n to be his
Vequented
mgh very
the latter
was a fine
man ; the
I rough the
being the
ildness of
id becaire

more bushy, with a mixture of fir and larch . and
again the road wound irreguhirly among some partial
o]»eniii5Tsand passed through one small settlement ; and
then re-entering th*. woods which overhang the St.
Francis, brought us to some rich and lovely meadows
among the hills, upon the margin of that river,
fringed by luxuriant trees and buslies, and garnished
by tlo vers, weeds in blossom they might be called,
but they stood high and made a show; and the whole
landscape being lit up by the declining sun, which
threw beautiful lights upon the i ver, its wooded
promontories, and its picturesque islets, the charms
left to this bli hted creation were brought strikingly
before the mind. The contemplation is soothing,
but images and objec ts of a far different character
make up the scene of Christian labour, and contrast
themselves, in thought, with pictures like this. Let
me be pardoned for having stopp* d to paint it in such
detail. We crossed the ferry, and continued for
about five miles through the high woods on the other
side, in which the hemlock tree is very prevalent,
till we reached the house of Mr. Ross, where his
mother, who resides with him, was waiting to ten-
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CONFIRMATION AT DRUMMONDVILLE, AND CONSE-
CRATION OF THE BURYING- GROUND.

August 22. — About one hundred and twenty per-
sons were assembled at the service this morning, and
fifteen were confirmed. Mr. Nicolls preached to the
congregation, and the burying-ground was after-
wards consecrated. The site had never, till lately,
been fully secured in legal form ; and I did not now
consecrate the church because there is a project in
agitation for replacing it by a better edifice. It is
quite sufficiently large, but it is an unsightly edifice,
and ill put together. At Lower Durham, where Mr.
Ross officiates in a school-house in the afternoon, the
frame of a church has been put up for some years,
and the work w^as proceeding this summer, after a
considerable suspension, when the tower was struck
by lightning, and much damage was done. This
church is thirteen miles above Drummondville. Mr.
Ross is again urging on the work, and I have made
a conditional promise of further aid from a sum
placed at my disposal by the Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge.

I found Mr. Ross, like many of the clergy, a little
anxious and divided in mind respecting the admis-
sibility of some of his candidates for confirmation,
unwilling to reject those who appeal ed well disposed,
although less advanced than he could desire in a
knowledge of spiritual things, and afraid at the same
time of establishing too low a standard of attainments.

VISITATION JOURNAL 1846.

> CONSE-
0.

reniy per-
iling, and
hed to the
^'as aftcr-
till lately,
d not now
project in
ice. It is
tly edifice,
where Mr.
3rnoon, the
ome years,
er, after a
was struck
me. This
ville. Mr.
lave made
►m a sum
Promoting

'gy, a little
;he admis-
ifirmation,
11 disposed,
lesire in a
at the same
:tainments.

The confirmations, in several instances, might have
been much larger, if the clergy had been lax and
easy. I went on with Mr. Nicolls, thirty-three
miles, to Nicolet, where we became the guests of my
friends, Colonel and Mrs. Chandler, in my well-
known quarters at the Manor House.

CONFIRMATION AT NICOLET.

Sunday, August 2S. — I confirmed fifteen persons
in Nicolet church, and preached to a congregation
of about eighty. Mr. Burgess's flock being scat-
tered over a considerable surface of the country, inha-
bited by the Roman Catholic French population, the
afternoon congregation is naturally diminished. Mr.
Nicolls preached this time to between forty and fifty
persons.

CONSECRATION OF THE CHURCH AT NICOLET.

August 24. — Mr. Ross and Mr. Butler, after the
duties of the Sunday at Drummondville, pushed on
to assist this day in the consecration of the church
at Nicolet. I preached and administered the com-
munion. About fifty or sixty persons were present.
Mr. Guerout also assisted in the services, having
come over for the purpose from the Riviere du
Loup, It is a neat and substantial little chui'ch of
stone, and the burying-ground in which it stands

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(also consecrated this day) is nicely planted and
enclosed.

In the evening I took leave of my hosts and the
clergy, all of whom were entertained at the Manor
House, and went down to Port St. Francis, four
miles off, where I embarked at eleven o'clock, p.m.,
in the steamer, and proceeded up Lake St. Peter to
Sorel, which I reached at half-past one, and was
met upon the wharf by the Rev. Mr. Anderson, who
made me lie down for a couple of hours upon his
sofa at the rectory.

Avgiist 26. — I had no duties at Sorel, the Con-
firmation having been held there in my journey oF
last winter, and I rose at four o'clock to prepare for
crossing in the ferry-steamer to Berthier, on the
north shore of the St. Lawrence, where Mr. Ander-
son breakfasted with me ; and, having taken leave
of him, proceeded, directly back from the water, to
the township of Kildare, about twenty-nine miles
from Sorel, which is an appendage to the mission of
Rawdown. There is a beautiful spot on this road,
at a ferry, where you cross a considerable river,
deeply sunk between very high and wooded hills ;
but the scene, like many others, has suffered, within
my recollection, by the fire and the axe.

CONFIRMATION AT KILDARE.

I was received at Kildare, where the Rev. Mr. Rollit
-came over to meet me, by an Irish family of the name

eigh

sion,

sionj

Soci

miss

weel

Sun

allt]

wit]

VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846.

nted and

and the
le Manor
[icis, four
ock, P.M.,
, Peter to
, and was
jrson, who

upon

hi^

of Dickson, of which there are several ramifications in
the neighbourhood — persons interested in the cause
of religion, and ready to make exertions and sacri-
fices in support of the Church; in fact, but for
them there would have been no church in Kildare.
The building is sufficiently finished to be used ; and
I held afternoon service, and preached to from
seventy to eighty persons: eight were confirmed.
I also, by particular desire, baptized a child belong-
ing to the family just mentioned.

, the Con-
journey of
)repare for
ier, on the
Jr. Ander-
aken leave,
e water, to
nine miles
mission of
n this road,
-able river,
)oded hills ;
ered, within

jv.Mr.RoUit
of the name

CONFIRMATION AT RAVTDON.

August 26. — Mr. RoUit drove me, after breakfast,
about nine miles, to his parsonage, in the township
of Rawdon ; and we were followed by two of the
Messrs. Dickson, in other vehicles, bringing my ser-
vant and baggage. In the afternoon, divine service
was held in (he church, where the number of per-
sons present approached two hundred, and thirty-
eight were confirmed, making forty-six in this mis-
sion, of which Mr. Rollit took charge in May, having
previously held the appointment of travelling mis-
sionary, under the auspices of the Diocesan Church
Society for the District of Quebec. He has a larger
mission now, and many appointments of duty for
week days, besides serving the two churches on
Sunday ; but for this labour, being equal to it, he is
all the happier, and it is a relief to him, as a man
with a fiimily, to have a settled home.

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CONFIRM ATIOX AT NEAV GLASGOW.

August 27. — We rose at five, and after an early
breakfast, set out, in the first instance, for New
Glasgow, in the extensive mission of Mascouche, in
the different parts of which I had left it to the Rev.
Mr. Flanagan to distribute my services, according
to his discretion, my circuit for the summer closing
there. Mr. RoUit and the elder Mr. Dickson still
came on with me ; and Mr. Constable, a leading
member of Mr. Il.*s congregation, accompanied us
in another vehicle. At St. Lin we stopped to bait
our horses, and found some refreshment provided
for ourselves at the house of the miller who has
charge of the seigneurial mill at this place, belonging
to the Hon. Mr. Pangman, of Mascouche (for we were
travelling, if T may so express it, with one foot in
the seigneuries, and one in the townships). The
English-speaking population of this neighbourhood,
who probably do not know much about St. Linus,
are a good deal at fault about the name of this
place, of which, in their imperfect endeavours to
follow the French pronunciation, they make some-
thing like Sallah. Mr. Flanagan was waiting for
us here ; and, after our luncheon, the whole party
came on to New Glasgow, where service was held
in the church, and I confirmed six persons : perhaps
eighty, or more, were present. Mr. Rollit preached
to the congregation. The church has a mean ap-
pearance, and does not seem to be well built ; but,

forti
the
Me ll

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an early
or New
mche, in
the Rev.
ceording
: closing
kson still
i leading
lanied us
1 to bait
provided
who has
jelonging
i: we were
le foot in
s). Tlie
30urhood,
5t. Linus,
le of this
wours to
|ike some-
aiting for
lole party-
was held
: perhaps
i preached
mean ap-
uilt; but,

by degrees, it may assume more and more of
some ecclesiastical character, and be otherwise im-
proved.

We had come twenty-five miles before service,
and I had about ten more to go, with Mr. Flanagan,
to the township of Kilkenny — a township truly in
the woods. This distance it was necessary to per-
form on horseback, on account of the nature of a
great portion of the road. A cart, however, fitted
for such service, was provided for the baggage. This
vehicle, and the horses, were brought over from
Kilkenny ; and Mr. Irwin, the good settler who was
my host in my winter journey of 1843, came with
them himself. After the first few miles the road is
a mere path through the dense and lofty forest; in
some places it is deep and boggy, and here, in a wet
season, must be difficult to get through ; in others,
it is a good deal encumbered with rocks and stones,
yet presenting no difficulty by daylight. A con-
siderable portion, however, of the whole length,
affords very good riding. It had been calculated
that we should arrive late, and men were prepared
to meet us in the wood with torches of cedar slips,
or birch bark; but as we reached Mr. Irwin's house
about half-past seven, this help, which had been put
in requisition, was not needed. We partook of the
refreshment provided for us, in which everything
was very good of its kind ; made our arrangements
for the duties of the morrow ; and, having gathered
the Christian family together for evening devotions,
we lay down afterwards, with feelings of thankful-

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ness, and happy sense of our communion with them
in the faith of Christ, beneath their humble roof.

COXFIRMATIOX AT KILKENNY.

August 28. — I went at six o'clock to swim in a
lake which is about a quarter of a mile from the
house, and upon the opposite shore of which I saw
the marks of habitations, in an opening made among
the woods. All beyond this is continuous and un-
broken forest, up to tlie inhospitable regions of the
north, yet destined, in time, to be farther and far-
ther encroached upon by man.

The service was appointed for half-past ten, and
the church is a couple of miles from the house, to
which we were not to return. We set out on horse-
back an hour before the time, all the baggage being
put into a cart. Within something more than a
mile of the church we were obliged to leave the
cart ; and the bags and portmanteau, containing
f "tides required for the service, were carried by
hand. We here entered a r.arrow horse-path, through
a close wood of towering trees. The footing of the
horses was difficult, from the quantity of great rough
stones in the path. It is rarely travelled, except on
foot, and in wet weather a horseman is liable to
be drenched by his contact with the branches on
either side ; but all w^as now dry, and all was fair.
The little wooden church, still unpainted, occupies
an isolated situation, upon a little eminence in an

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ith them
J roof.

opening among the woods, but it is central with
reference to the abodes of the worshippers. Here,
having tied our horses to the fence, we went in, and
met a congregation of ninety person?, or upwards.
Twenty-three were confirmed.

vim in a
from the
ich I saw
ile among
3 and un-
ns of the

and far-
ten, and

house, to

on horse-
^age being
►re than a

leave the
containing
carried by
th, through
ting of the
rreat rough
I, except on
is liable to
iranches on
ill was fair,
ed, occupies
lence in an

CLAIMS OF THE KILKENNY CONGREGATION.

This congregation of Irish Church people in the
heart of the woods have a strong and special claim
upon the care of the Church — a claim of which, in
the person of her ministers, she has assuredly not
been unmindful ; for all the missionaries in succes-
sion, who have held charges within any reach of
them, have, with much labour and toil, paid them
visits at such intervals as it was practicable to fix.
Latterly they have had service once a fortnight ; but,
except upon the rare occasion of administering the
vSacrament of the Lord's Supper, always upon a
week-day. And thus they are called away from
their labours in the field, at a season, perhaps, when
every hour is precious, and in a eilmate where the
whole season for agricultural labour is but brief, and
in a country where labour is so scarce that, in settle-
ments like these, the settler and his family are the
sole labourers themselves. And then, when Sunday
comes, they will not profane by labour their day of
rest, nor suffer those belonging to them to do so ;
but their church is shut up, and no pastor is seen
among them. There are many among them, I doubt

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not, who devoutly improve the day in tlieir fiimilies ;
but the young people are growing up without its
being associated with the ordinances of the house of
God, and in the danger of making it a day of mere
idleness. All this the people have keenly felt, yet
they have not murmured, but have thankfully appre-
ciated what has been done for them, and have very
generally resisted any endeavours to make advantage
of their open Sunday, to draw them off, in affection
and duty, from their Church. Feeling the impera-
tive necessity of dividing this unwieldy mission,
and particularly of supplying the want which is
here indicated, and having, as has been seen above,
made up my mind that the mission of Danville
ought not to be kept up, and that, therefore, what-
ever might be decided by the Society respecting the
appropriations from the clergy reserves, the case
might be provided for by the transfer of that mis-
sion to this locality, I intimated to the people, before
we parted, a hope of being able, before any great
lapse of time, to effect such arrangement. As I was
riding away, some of the leading men cried after
me, ** Well ! you have gladdened the hearts of the
people of Kilkenny this day." They have undertaken
to add 10/. a year to the salary of the missionary,
payable through the Church Society, and with a
guarantee from their churchwardens, if they can
have Sunday service.

Mr. Fleming, who, in pursuance of the proposal
just mentioned, and under the arrangement inti-
mated in my notes of the 18th August, has since

jng
abov'
althol
of, ai
Canal
fusioj
f trees

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i'limilies ;
hout its
house of
of mere
felt, yet
ly appre-
ave very
dvantage
affection
J impera-
mission,
which is
en above,
Danville
>re, what-
3Ctlng the
the case
that mis-
pie, before
any great
As I was
ried after
irts of the
mdertaken
nissionary,
nd with a
they can

le proposal
ment inti-
, has since

been settled at New Glasgow, with the charge of
that place, of Paisley, and of Kilkenny, all taken off
from the mission of Mascouche, will afford regular
Sunday service at Kilkenny, and will, I trust, by
God's blessing, be acceptable and useful to the
people. Mascouche and Terrebonne, with some
occasional visits to more distant points, arc reserved
to Mr. Flanagan. The Society, I persuade my-
self, will readily approve of what I have done.

We struck, by a cross path, into the road leading
to New Glasgow, and at this place exchanged our
riding-horses for a light waggon, in which we pro-
ceeded at once to Mascouche. A broken bridge
obliged us to take an unusual road, which prolonged
our drive. In one part of it we came through a
broad straight vista of wood, continued for a great
length, with one interruption of open fields, upon a
perfectly level road. The effect was beautiful,
especially in the former part of the wood, where
noble pines, as straight as an arrow, reminded one
of the description, which I quote from the memory
of many years, of the elms about the house of Sir
Hoger de Coverley, which had " shot up so exceed-
ing high, that the rooks and crows, which were
above them, seemed to be cawing in another region ;'
although, indeed, there were no crows, that I know
of, about these pines, and there are no rooks in
Canada. These pines were intermixed with a pro-
fusion of very flourishing larches, and with other
trees of deciduous kinds.

Mr. Flanagan had kindly wished that I should be

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his guest; but Mrs. F. Imd just been confined, and
I found, according to former experience, a bearty
welcome at Grace Hall, tlie manor house of Mas-
couche. Mr. Pangman invited Mr. Flanagan to
dine there daily during my stay.

August 29. — There were no public duties marked
out for me this day, in the arrangements which
Mr. Flanagan had made. My old task of letter-
writing comes back upon me in every little break
of the journey, and I was engaged with Mr. F.
upon the affairs of his mission ; but I found time to
stroll about the heights which surround the quiet
little valley in which the manor house is situated —
an exceedingly long building, of one story in height,
with an enclosed kind of court before it, planted
with firs and other trees. The little river which
winds along the valley, and turns the seigneurial
mill, passes through the immediate precincts of the
house. The valley is embosomed in broken banks
and hills, here closely wooded, and there ornamented
by open groves or clumps of pines ; the level below,
by the river side, with park-like forest- trees ; the
swells, slopes, and sheltered hollows of the ground,
are disposed by the hand of Nature with the hap-
piest variety. I had never seen this spot before in
summer, and was tempted to describe it in my notes,
while the impression was fresh, and have transferred
the description to these pages, although I have dealt
too much already in this kind of thing. Mr. Pang-
man, and his amiable family, seemed as if they might
be called the tenants of the Happy Valley.

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101

nfid, and
(i hearty
of Mas-

lagan

s marked
ts which
of letter-
ttle break
li Mr. F.
id time to
the quiet
situated —
in height,
it, planted
\'er which
;eigneurial
icts of the
ken banks
rnamented
ivel below,
trees ; the
lie ground,
h the hap-
t before in
a my notes,
transferred
[ have dealt
Mr. Pang-
' they might

The parsonage is pleasantly situated on the hill
above, close to the little church ; and the burying-
grouhd opposite is shaded by handsome pines.

CONFIRMATION AT MASCOUOHE.

August. 30, Sunday. — I preached in the morning
to about one hundred persons, rather more than the
church will well accommodate; but chairs had been set
in the aisle for the occasion. Twenty-seven were con-
firmed. In the afternoon I preached again to about
lialf the number — the Protestants here, as at Nicolet,
being a scattered body, intermixed with the Roman
Catholic population, and some of them having far
to go home. I admitted two candidates to confirma-
tion, who had been prepared, but, from particular
circumstances, were too late in the morning ; and
I baptized the child of the reverend missionary with
another. Fifty-eight persons, in all, were confirmed
in this mission.

An old gentleman of the medical profession, of
the name of Munro, living at the next parish, was
introduced to me at the parsonage house, who
seemed to have been much interested by the ser-
vices of the day, and whose recollections were car-
ried back to his own confirmation, performed about
1787, by Bishop Inglis of Nova Scotia, the first
of our Colonial Bishops, and the father of the pre-
sent Bishop of the same see, when he paid an official
visit to Canada. This old gentleman makes the

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fourth livinpj individual of my own acquaintance
who received confirmation at the same hands — the
hands of the only Colonial Bishop of the Church of

England then in the world.

RETURN TO QUEBEC.

August 31. — Mr. Pangman took me over in his
carriage to Montreal. At the Lackenage ferry some
rocks were shown to us, appearing above the water,
which, as we were told, had never been seen before.
The drought and heat of the summer had been
almost without precedent ; and we found the harvest
closed at a season wiien, in ordinary years, there are
portions of it not begun. After crossing this ferry,
we soon fell into a plank road for the remainder of
our way. The whole distance from Mascouche to
Montreal is twenty-five miles. I embarked at six
o'clock in the steamer, and at the same hour on the
next morning arrived in Quebec.

The review of this journey, in which I had been
enabled to keep the whole chain of my appointments
made in the spring, and in which I had found many
faithful brethren reaping fruity as I trust, unto life
eternal, and receiving wages better than those of
this world, in which they experience deficiency
enough, is replete with grounds of thankfulness
(and thankful, indeed, must I be, if, such as I am,
God has deigned to use my own ministrations for
good); but it is shaded, also, with many saddening

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103

laintance
nds — the
Jhurch of

er in liis
3rry some
he water,
en before,
had been
le harvest
there are
this ferry,
nainder of
jcouche to
ked at six
3ur on tlie

[ had been
Dointraents
)und manv
t, unto life
n those of

deficiency
lankfulness
1 as I am,
rations for

saddening

thoughts. There must always be a mixture of vexa-
tions, discouragements, and difficulties, in carrying
on the work of the Gospel in the world; and there
are here local causes of depressions, peculiar in their
kind. The Church, associated in the minds of men
with the crown and empire of Britain, originally
encouraged to believe that she should occupy her
appropriate footing in the land, and command re-
sources adequate to her task, and invested with a
character which often creates expectations to which
she would be but too happy to be able to respond, is,
taken as a whole, a poor and struggling Church, strain-
ing herself to meet, in an imperfect manner, the wants
of her widely-dispersed members, and standing in
humiliating juxtaposition with the powerful and
prosperous establishment of the Church of Home.
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, with
much help, also, from the Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge, has been, humanly speaking,
our hope and stay. We bless God, who raised up
such friends ; and we learn, that it is better to trust
in Hi3i, than to pttt any confidence in \winces.

THE END.

R. CLAY, PIIINTEII. BREAD STREET HILL.